Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RICH ALGERIA will get its first refinery, and it will be North Africa's biggest yet (daily capacity: some 40,000 bbl.). Plant will be built, probably near Algiers, by combine of Mobil Oil, Standard Oil (N.J.), Shell, British Petroleum and three French firms...
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Married. Kim Stanley (real name: Patricia Kimberly Reid), 33, star of Broadway's Bus Stop, and of Hollywood's The Goddess, whose training at the Actors' Studio made her the standard Brando of U.S. actresses; and TV Actor Alfred Ryder, 39; she for the third time, he for the first; in The Bronx...
Novelist Powell, who was at Eton with Henry Green and George Orwell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, proves that he is not out of place in such company. He is by any standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a new novelist's commandment to the effect that he shall not describe a character unless he describes his neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass and anything that is his neighbor's. But through such means, Powell tells a story of the between...