Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purges & Chirps. This was not quite the kind of coexistence that Anastas Mikoyan had in mind. Nevertheless, he went right on making his disarming impression. He was solid in Detroit, got his biggest laugh at a private dinner with top industrial and civic leaders when he brought up the subject of laxatives-one of the products that U.S. manufacturers are permitted to sell in Russia. Cracked Anastas, through his interpreter: "I see this is a capitalistic thing, perhaps designed to weaken us. You see, without laxatives, our top people are likely to be disagreeable and more formidable. But with extravagant...
Thomas K. Finletter will address the World Affairs Council on the subject of "Foreign Policy--The Next Phase" tonight at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
This is the first time that House Masters have appointed members of the Student Council. The new procedure was promulgated in a Council report last spring, and is intended to recruit new members with "popularly unrecognized talent." Each appointment is subject to ratification by the House Committee...
What stands out along with Gielgud's mastery of his material is his absorption in his subject-the sense, toward Shakespeare, of something loved and lifelong. The effect that such a recital seems to promise most, a flashing virtuosity, is what matters least. The essence of the evening is not glitter but glow...
...World War II battle for Leyte Gulf was the "greatest naval battle of all time," according to Historian Samuel Eliot Morison* and to 16-year-old Bill Frazer the sea fight seemed a fine subject for a U.S. history-class term paper. But the skinny (5 ft. 11 in., 128 lbs.), scholarly San Fernando (Calif.) Senior High School junior was dissatisfied with the research material available-he knew of only about 250 books on the Pacific phase of World War II. So Bill who six years ago bought a set of lead models of Japanese fighting ships with his newspaper...