Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely done what they had told him to do. They went to Stalin next day and told him this: that it was their collective plan, not Voznesensky's; that he had been unfair to Voznesensky and ought to apologize to him. 'I can't,' said Stalin. 'He was shot this morning...
...subjects clearly liked Elizabeth just as she was. Said a cockney cab driver: "I vote Labor every time. But there's nothing like our Queen. No President could talk like that and mean what she means to everyone." A university student was even more choked up: "She really shot back at her critics. After hearing her, my Dad said to me, 'Ruddy good show, that,' and that's just what...
...collection of nine arrangements of modern jazz works (Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight, Miles Davis' Swing Spring), plus three original compositions by French Hipster Hodeir, Europe's leading jazz critic-composer (Oblique, On a Riff, Cadenze). The emphasis here is on intricately woven ensemble playing, shot through with some fine flights of "written improvisation...
...color documentary on the seven-nation region that arcs from Laos to Indonesia, then let the film gather dust for a year. Last week viewers could see the results-and understand why nobody bothered to rush the go-minute show to the screen. Southeast Asia offered some striking individual shots, such as a closeup of an opium smoker, and picturesque views of Thai boxers, golden Burmese temples and the stone splendor of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. But in trying to do too much-a travelogue plus a report of things social, economic, political, religious, anthropological-it did almost nothing...
...Public apathy is forcing manufacturers of Salk polio vaccine to destroy hundreds of thousands of doses. About 25 million shots are stockpiled, with little demand during the season of low incidence when the public tends to forget polio. And unused vaccine must be destroyed after six months. Doctors' reminder: anyone beginning a three-shot vaccination series now can finish it before the polio season's summer peak in most...