Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real news was made in the cafés and lobbies where, over their frozen daiquiris, the delegates were busy planning more restrictions. The Moslem countries prepared a Middle East Bloc, to be developed by a series of government five-and twelve-year plans; the Argentines wanted a similar preference bloc in South America; the Soviet satellites (three of whom had sent representatives to Havana even though Russia had not) talked of further tightening their "anti-Marshall" economic bloc. Though the British went along with the U.S. on many points, the British sterling bloc would for the time being remain...
...medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...
Sitting Pretty, which owes a war-sized debt to The Man Who Came to Dinner, will probably be the first of a series of similar Clifton Webb farces. Thanks to his chilly relish of his lines, and his generally swishy aplomb, the picture is good for many more smiles than yawns...
...ready for competitive hockey in the "peewee leagues." This year the Dominion's two big-league teams (Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens) will spend more than $70,000 to help keep amateurs on ice, groom some of them ultimately for the big time. In a setup similar to major-league baseball, N.H.L.'s six teams own farm teams in the lesser professional and amateur leagues...
...transaction has been shrouded in secrecy, and few details are even now available on the renovations already underway. Presumably the restaurant chain will construct something similar to its typical edifices, adapted to catch University trade...