Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communists & Cough Drops. At 3:10 p.m. Florida's glib, long-nosed Claude Pepper began to speak. Between interruptions, he droned on until 6:50 p.m. Idaho's Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would...
Surplus Food. Seven hundred people -peasants, workmen, other townspeople -jammed the hotel's auditorium to capacity. On the stage, the speaker's table was covered with the green, white and red of the Hungarian national colors picked out in wild flowers. Everything looked peaceful enough. But the local secretary of the Freedom Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side...
When the three M.P.s walked on to the stage, they got a rousing welcome. But as Nagy stepped up to the microphone and started to speak, his first words were drowned out by shouts from leather-lunged Communists: "Long live Stalin; long live Rakosi...
...theater for rehearsals, Marie sits in absolute quiet for half an hour before each show to store up enough intensity to project the sinister malevolence of Madame Flora across the footlights. A Roman Catholic, she solemnly says "thank you" to the statuette of the Madonna on the stage when the final curtain is down. Says she: "I am having the time of my life. Each night I dedicate the performance to somebody-a friend, my dead husband. Then I think of the woman in the audience who is tired and who had to get a sitter to be able...
Only a few primitive guided missiles (such as the Navy's "Bat" and "Loon") have passed the blueprint stage. But Colonel McCutcheon can already outline how their successors will be used in war. Some will have enormous ranges, striking at enemy cities and blasting them to rubble with atomic warheads. These will not need pinpoint accuracy...