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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past eight years, an Austrian living within sight of Switzerland could phone his Swiss neighbor only by routing his call through Vienna, 300 miles off, so that the censors might listen in. A staff of nearly 1,000 censors stuck their collective noses into letters from Vienna and the Russian zone, and into all telegrams, wireless and Teletype messages going abroad. Worse, the Austrians had to pay the $500,000-a-year cost of all this censorious attention...
...Administration," he said, "so foolish as to believe that we, who in January came to Washington, have seen and conquered all the problems of our nation. The future, both immediate and distant, remains full of trial and hazard. The end of our staggering economic burden is not yet in sight. The end of the peril to peace is not clearly in view...
...sight of Dwight Eisenhower beaming and bowing in their midst was a momentous symbol for 42 governors gathered last week in Seattle for their 45th annual conference. Not in 15 years had a President of the United States visited them, and after the death of Robert Taft, the governors thought that Eisenhower had sufficient excuse to break his longstanding date. But to Ike's mind, the conference was an all-important rendezvous...
...months of Taft's term and then make a deal to have Burke run for governor next year. Many an Ohio pundit believes that Vote-Getter Lausche, an independent, conservative Democrat who controls the state party organization, could win the senatorial nomination easily and beat any Republican in sight...
...such hit, such hits as The Happy Time, Guys and Dolls, Call Me Madam, The Member of the Wedding and The Cocktail Party. But Shirley's Lola had a haunting effect on playgoers that lasted beyond the fall of the final curtain. Shirley captured every acting award in sight (New York Drama Critics' Circle, Antoinette Perry, Newspaper Guild, Donaldson, Barter). In the movie version of Sheba, she broke all precedents by winning the coveted Academy Award Oscar on her very first Hollywood try. The judges at this year's Cannes International Film Festival wrapped it up neatly...