Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traitors" in the dock. Press censorship is now in the hands of an army veterinarian, Colonel Loutfi Tahir, who fills the newspapers with Red propaganda. Last week Iraqi authorities expelled three U.S. correspondents-TIME's William McHale, CBS's Winston Burdett, U.P.I.'s Larry Collins-on short notice, and Kassem's office said he was helpless to save them...
...hostile Patagonia hides riches that can make the difference between boom and bust for Argentina's dollar-short wheat-beef economy. With a new "Operation Patagonia" and with massive infusions of foreign capital, President Arturo Frondizi has high hopes of unlocking the treasure house. He has already kicked off Operation Patagonia with a series of projects. One is a $149 million El Chocón hydroelectric project on the Limay River by a 27-firm British-French-Italian combine to provide 650,000 kw. of power, irrigate 250,000 acres of parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit...
...Boris Karloff's film classic, The Mummy. Whether they do or not, the sixth straight gals-and-ghouls movie (and 59th film) turned out by Britain's brash little Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is sure to be boffo all over the world. Last week Hammer's short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. In three years, Hammer's remakes of Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and other...
...Arthur Conan Doyle, who visualized the earth's shell as a living creature, made his fictional Professor Challenger poke a sharp drill eight miles down, called his story When the World Screamed. AMSOC's goal is to pierce the Mohorovicic discontinuity, which scientists call the Moho for short...
...arrived last fall, Kristofferson began behaving exactly as he had done back at Pomona College, where he had earned a Phi Beta Kappa key, won conference recognition as a football end, commanded his R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning...