Word: seale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists and good Russians. Nothing in the Syrian unpleasantness, wrote Nasser's trained seal. Editor Mohammed Heikal of Al Ahram, must be allowed to affect "in any way the great victory we achieved in earning the friendship of the Soviet Union...
...wrangling among judges and party officials over how far the reforms should go, the revised body of Soviet criminal law was put before the Supreme Soviet and swiftly approved. Embodying for the most part changes that have already been adopted in fact, the new code puts the final seal on one of the major developments of Russia's post-Stalin period...
Scientist Loureiro believes the Xetás are the most primitive humans surviving in the modern world, is trying to persuade the Brazilian government to seal them off in a jungle preserve before they are pushed to the wall by the advancing frontier. "It would be a crime against science," he says, "to destroy Xetá culture now. The Xetás must be saved intact in their natural jungle surroundings-at least until we can complete our study of them...
...Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 94, winner of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize for "his disinterested but enthusiastic work for the League of Nations, his work for peace among nations and in helping President Wilson in organizing the League of Nations," longtime delegate to the League of Nations, Lord Privy Seal under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, son of the Third Marquess of Salisbury, who was thrice Queen Victoria's Prime Minister; of injuries received in a fall; at Tunbridge Wells, England. Lord Cecil did as much to create the League as any man but Woodrow Wilson. He regarded the American...
...Seventh Seal (Swedish). The photography is lovely, the form obscure (a medieval morality play), and only those who react to the highly exotic will find the film unreservedly tasty...