Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentrated effort to line up Congress and the people behind a program of aid and comfort to Franco. Senator Pat McCarran is currently touring Europe, trying to see how relations with Spain can be improved; an American naval delegations recently visited the Caudillo, gave a big show for Spanish government officials, and was warmly received...
...Browning Version," which opens the evening, seemed to me the more successful of the two. It is a very interesting, if leisurely paced show, with deft touches of understated humor and sensitivity. Evans plays an austere and reserved master of the Classics in an English public school--"the Himmel of the Lower Fifth," as he is characterized by the headmaster. The play concerns the gradual eliciting of his emotions toward himself, his work and his promiscuous wife. A humorless man, he had been unable, throughout his career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge...
...Vickers 4O-passenger Viscount and Armstrong Whitworth's 31-passenger Apollo, both turboprops. For feeder-lines, it had both De Havilland's reciprocating engined Dove (eight to eleven passengers) and Handley Page's 22-passenger turboprop, the Mamba Marathon.* But the star of the show at Farnborough was De Havilland's 36-passenger Comet, the first four-engined jet transport, which took off and then flashed overhead at better than 500 m.p.h...
Reports received in answer to an NSA questionnaire show how student unions in Eastern Europe have taken up the economic programs of the new "people's governments" in these countries, and how students in Germany and Japan have started-up now organizations with encouragement from the occupation authorities...
...often expelled students for cheating. One attitude expressed is, "Usually I'd try to see what I can get away with, but they pull this honor business on you and you're stuck." Coupled with the Honor Code is the Fundamental Standard, which says, "Students are expected to show both within and without the university such respect for order, morality, personal honor, and the rights of others as is demanded of good citizens...