Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale instructor, two months in studying the Fort Monmouth cases on alleged espionage, said last night Senator McCarthy had "no foundation at all for the spectacular headlines he gave the case in November...
...Yankees aren't spectacular, but then, they haven't been spectacular for the past five years. Their winning combination seems to be a weird mixture of a great tradition, a clever-trading front office, an infinitely resourceful manager, an inexhaustible farm system and a bunch of old pros...
...pink-cheeked Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's Minister of Economics, stopped off last week in Chile. As in Mexico, where he opened his tour by attending the inauguration of a $25 million German industrial fair, he was welcomed as the fiscal wizard who symbolizes West Germany's spectacular economic comeback. Santiago's press gave him the Page One treatment, university professors asked him to lecture, and Chile's much-regulated businessmen applauded till the walls of the Union Club vibrated when he told them: "There is no miracle in German recovery-individual economic liberty has been...
...Caravaggio, which has been growing steadily ever since Milan staged a Caravaggio retrospective three years ago. In recent months Critic Bernard Berenson has published an appraisal of Caravaggio's work, and British Critic Roger Hinks has added a critical biography of one of the world's most spectacular artistic adventurers...
Caravaggio's career was as brief as it was spectacular. A notorious brawler, he eventually stabbed and killed a crony in a dispute over a tennis score, and had to flee Rome. He found refuge at Malta, where he painted a portrait of the Grand Master and was rewarded with a knighthood. But then he assaulted a fellow knight and was imprisoned. He escaped, made his way to Tuscany, was arrested for a crime he had not committed. Soon afterward, he died of fever. He was then...