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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate-House conference. The House version would authorize only $4.9 billion, would flatly withhold $1 billion from Europe until the European Defense Community is a reality. No matter which way the final version leans, there seemed to be little doubt that the end of donation diplomacy is in sight...
...week clerk he was. One of seven children, he had been spoiled by his mother, a talented musician, bullied by his father. Early in life sexual immaturity made him the butt of girl-friend jokes. In World War I he was wounded by a mustard-gas shell, lost his sight for five months and the power of speech for three years. Working as a clerk, he met and married Ethel Simpson, took a job as a postman but was caught opening mail and cashing postal orders, and went to jail for three months...
...treacherous foe which can infiltrate their digestive tracts and cause dysentery or death. Last week 1,490 employees of the Singer Manufacturing Co.'s plant in South Bend, Ind. found themselves, with their families and friends, in all-out war against the lowly amoeba, with no truce in sight...
...surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily on an idle cement mixer pointed with a sneer at a tall Vopo. "Hello, long one," he cried...
...Celtic queen (or princess, or priestess or high courtesan) must have been a gorgeous sight as she lay in death in her chariot. Around her neck was a collar of tubular bronze. On her breast were brooches and necklaces set with amber and stones. She wore bracelets of amber and anklets of hollow bronze...