Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much Time to Lose. Next, Halvard Lange took on his critics in the Storting. At a special session, he told the isolationist nervous-Nellies that Norway alone "is not and cannot be militarily strong enough" either to discourage or fight off an attack by a great power. Whatever Norway decided, she would decide herself; he would bring back to the Storting the detailed conditions for joining the pact...
...direction of rangy young William F. Heimlich, 37, of Columbus, Ohio. As a lieutenant colonel, Heimlich arrived in Berlin in 1945 with the first American units. A former announcer, producer and writer at station WOSU in Columbus, Heimlich became director of RIAS a year ago, pepped it up with special events in addition to regular Voice of America programs. "After Goebbels," he says, "the Germans are fed up with long propaganda tirades over the air. While the Russians continue in this way, we have borrowed heavily from U.S. broadcasting methods to put real zing in our programs...
Next step will be to test the bed in the nose of an F80 jet fighter. But its full advantage will not be known until a special extra-slim jet plane has been designed around...
...wore a childlike smile when something pleased him, a chilling sneer when something did not. Sometimes he gesticulated wildly, once seemed near tears. Often he seemed merely bored ("Bah, I speak baby stuff!"). But whatever his crotchets, students and professors at Yale last week were flocking to the special seminar of Polish-born Count Alfred Korzybski...
...their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except for special occasions, the attendance followed the pattern of the pre-World War I days, which a mournful St. Louis sportwriter once characterized by saying solemnly that "the fans were staying away in large numbers...