Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at his desk to get his new program in shape for announcement at next week's 41st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Khrushchev leaped nimbly back into his old round of international politicking. He talked long with U.S. Columnist Walter Lippmann, told a Brazilian journalist "we could supply Soviet machines and specialists to Brazil." In his most formal black hat he welcomed Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka at the rainswept Byelorussian station for an important party visit. But his flashing feat of the week was bringing off an international propaganda coup in the Arab Middle East...
...British left behind a Jordan in far less promising shape than Lebanon. Young King Hussein was reported seriously considering following the British westward for a "vacation" in Europe. He professed to feel in no further need of help. But as ever, Jordan continued to exist largely on the sufferance of more powerful neighbors who were restrained, if at all, by the feeling that any other solution to the Jordanian problem would be even worse...
...extraordinary characters-a devotion that enables him to make them not merely funny but amazingly human as well. Haughty aristocrat, aping student, money-loving businessman, dim-witted girl-by the time Marceau has done with them, all have shed their comical trappings, and walk the world in the shape of broken hearts...
...course, Pennsylvania deserves much credit for producing some very good football on Saturday. Prior to the game, the Quakers had been reported in rather bad shape--both physically and in terms of team morale. Right from the start, however, their play belied these rumors...
...many ways the Harvard football picture could hardly be brighter than it is now. The Crimson is in remarkably good physical shape, and has just beaten a team as strong as any it will have to face all year. Its defense has seemed superb--allowing just one touchdown in the last three games. Its fiery little quarter-back, Charlie Ravenel, has greatly picked up offense that was too much given to sputterings and stallings in the early part of the season...