Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stay Out. Last month, when the Soviets sent an oversized 38-man delegation to a U.N.-sponsored conference in Malaya and tried to reverse Rahman's adamant refusal to have diplomatic relations with Communist countries, the Prime Minister bluntly told them: "We cannot allow representatives of Communist countries here while we are fighting Communists in the jungle. We just cannot have ties with you." Later, when 35 British Labor M.P.s demanded that Britain withdraw her troops from Malaya, they got no support from Rahman. Rather than urge British troops to go home, the Cambridge-educated Prince insists that...
...with a foot in the door, the Russians next asked for a trade pact and consular agreement. Again under political pressure at home, Adenauer sent his bargainers back to the table. Last week in Moscow, after nine months of sparring, the Soviets and West Germans announced a new agreement. Once again the Soviets appeared to have got more than they gave...
...Steel Hour. "You see, I got four daughters. Each one takes turns having me for a visit. Every three months, like clockwork, I get sent out-like a quarterly dividend." This was the TV story of Walter Slezak, playing a retired furrier from Manhattan, whose bumbling social presence made his daughters uncomfortable and embarrassed their husbands. Visiting son-in-law No. 4, an ambitious Hollywood agent, Slezak lumberingly wrecked a cocktail party by commenting amiably on a guest's mink ("Say, that's a nice mutation you got there; it's not what you'd call...
...theater tickets. Guinness was good at the job, but after 18 months he had had it. "I felt I had to quit, and do something about the stage." But how to begin? He knew nobody in the theater. He called his favorite actor, John Gielgud, who listened sympathetically and sent him to study with Actress Martita Hunt. After twelve sessions with the drab young man, she sadly shook her head. "You'll never make an actor, Mr. Guinness...
Guinness had a comparatively good war. Commissioned, he was sent to the Mediterranean as captain of an LCI, assigned to ferry butter and hay to the Yugoslav Partisans. On convoy duty, he recalls, he had trouble keeping his ship in line, and once, after several days of bad steering, he received a terse communication from the flagship: "Hebrews 13:8." He looked it up in the ship's Bible: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever." In the invasion of Sicily he was the first ashore-a mistake in orders. When the admiral arrived at last, Guinness...