Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yoghurt in Paris. At 32, pretty Kristina Czaykowska, the heroine of Paris Original, is a receptionist in "Maison Deschamps," a Parisian stronghold of haute couture. She feels more like a shopworn beauty than a sleeping one. In the spring of 1947, she is three years away from her native Warsaw and eight years estranged from a husband who opted for the "People's Poland." She lives on yoghurt and corn bread, scurries home each night to her lonely, thimble-sized flat, and keeps telling herself that Paris is wonderful. But the only Paris Kristina knows, the goldfish bowl...
Last week from the French stronghold of Le Kef, in the mountainous heart of fellagha country, TIME Correspondent Frank White cabled: Around Le Kef, French colons-colonial planters-were busy with their U.S.-made combines in waist-high grain, harvesting the best crop (56% above average) in the province's history. But the colons were not alone with their flailing combines...
...November, Mecklin watched from the air as French paratroopers dropped from the planes around him to capture the tiny Communist stronghold that later became known throughout the world as Dienbienphu. A few weeks later, he stood on the bridge of a French flagship while the commanding officer ordered the landing barges away in the first phase of Operation Atlante (TIME, Feb.1). Mecklin also made quick flights to Seno and Luang Prabang to cover distant phases of the war close up. "Hardly a week goes by," he says, "that you don't do some flying, nearly always in a plane...
Arguing for Marquette in the debate were George and Campion Kearsten, whose father, Charles R. Kearsten, is Republican Congressman from Wisconsin's fifth district, a McCarthy stronghold...
...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...