Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his compartment full of roses and a huge bouquet in his hand, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky was on his way back to Moscow from Paris. While photographers' bulbs flashed and Soviet officials bowed & scraped, newsmen fired questions about the spectacular failure of every Russian proposal put to the current session of the U.N. Assembly. Said Vishinsky: "The decisions taken were for the preparation of a new war by the Anglo-American bloc." Was he going to retire? Quipped white-haired Vishinsky, 68: "Qui vivra verra [He who lives shall see]." All but one of the satellite lackeys...
...public got a good look last week at Britain's spectacular new interceptor, the Gloster GA-5. Photographed for the first time in the air, the bizarre, dartlike R.A.F. plane marks a milestone in aviation: the coming-of-age of the "delta" wing...
...deep conviction was enough to spur French pride. He had his small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates. Général de Théátre the cynics called him, but if De Lattre's triumphs were invariably spectacular, it was simply because he saw no reason why heroism and high purpose should be hidden under a hypocritical bushel of false modesty...
Ward lived in a manner befitting his success. At Hilltop Acres, his $200,000 estate commanding a spectacular view of the Rockies, he gave nightlong parties. Once, at 4 a.m., when a guest remarked that La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, N. Mex. served wonderful pancakes, Ward chartered a DC-3 and flew all his guests there for a pancake breakfast...
...newspapers, including the CRIMSON, had a front page article on Captain Carlsen, but the fact that such a hero as General Delattre De Tassigny was dying, was almost unnoticed. It is to be desired that newspapers, at least the better ones, stop looking for the spectacular and sensational and turn their attention to the important news...