Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the iceberg suddenly cracked. Without warning, Ulbricht fired three of his top associates, labeled them members of "an opportunistic group trying to change the political line of the party." In short, the three had shown signs of thaw. "Others" in the party, added the announcement, were associated with the group-a sign that a good-sized purge was in progress...
...hiding place in Amsterdam. What happened next? Of the last days of one of the world's best-known modern heroines, little was known except that she had died, like millions of other Jews, in a German concentration camp. To fill out the chronicle of her short life, West German Publisher S. Fischer last year assigned Author Ernst Schnabel to search the German and Dutch archives and interview survivors of the camps who might have known her. In Paris Le Figaro Littéraire printed excerpts from Schnabel's findings, to be published as a book...
...school population estimated to be the hard-core punks. It raised a howl among some teacher and civic groups as "an act of desperation" and "an abject surrender to pressure," and there was talk that the policy might be challenged in the courts. Since the city is desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets" to do even more damage. But the board had laid down a dramatic challenge. Somehow, it said in effect, the city...
Last week police cut short Stengle's Florida vacation, escorted him home to face arraignment-and the news that the redhead had been seeing a lot of another man while taking his gifts. He admitted that he had embezzled at least $125,000. Officials thought that the final figure might reach as much as $200,000. Whatever the amount, the Collingdale school district last week found itself all but flat broke. It had only about $15,000 left to last the rest of the year. Casey Stengle was very sorry, but he was also glad the whole thing...
...local Metropolitan Auditions. Pet of the Bocce is onetime La Scala Basso Antonio Meloni, who rooms across the street from the bar, has played pinochle there nearly every day since it opened in 1939. Basso Meloni, 81. arrives each morning at 10, stays all day, takes a short nap after dinner, brushes his shoulder-length white hair and returns for the evening. He sings at the drop of a bocce ball, joins Peironi's troupe at least once a night...