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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ACTION (The American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods) will soon launch a nationwide campaign to clean out slums. The new, nonprofit organization, formed by groups representing some 100 million people, estimates that of 50 million U.S. homes 35 million need repairs, while another 8,000,000 are rundown areas that can be classed as slums...
...four hours with Ibáñez and his chief ministers, Holland got a restrained rundown on Chile's plight. They asked for no U.S. aid, but Chilean economists later told him that at November's hemisphere conference in Rio they will seek creation of a new development-loan bank and price supports for Latin American raw materials. Holland spoke up for broadened trade and private investments, and departed, soberly, for Bolivia...
...rundown: General Motors, which completely restyled its Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs this year, will only face-lift those makes for 1955. Cadillac's engine will be jacked up from 230 h.p. to nearly...
...quarter of a century, some of the finest poetry written in the U.S. has come from a modest apartment on a rundown street in Brooklyn. But in recent years it has come only in a thin trickle. Since 1945, only three poems have been published by the charming grey-haired spinster who has won every U.S. poetry prize worth winning. Not that Marianne Moore had been idle in the last eight years; she had never worked so hard in her life. Now 66, she has finished her labor of love: a new verse translation of the 241 Fables...
...plot of the picture is a rapid rundown of Val's early adventures. A viking prince whose throne has been usurped, Val comes to Camelot to ask for a seat at the Table Round. Refused, he becomes a squire to Sir Gawain (Sterling Hay den), falls in love with the Princess Aleta of Ord, is captured by his viking foe, escapes, leads a charge on the enemy citadel, foils a plot to betray King Arthur, kills the villain with his "Singing Sword," and wins his lady fair-all in 100 minutes...