Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crudities and misconceptions implied in Giant are undoubtedly not intentional. Largely they are the result of an attempt to include too many themes in one film. But, the technical causes aside, the movie as a whole has extremely interesting implications. With all its maternal triumphs and sugar-coated solutions, it is truly American...
...winegrowers-a disastrous one for Bordeaux and West Germany, a poor one in both quantity and quality for Burgundy. The government has 'already given Burgundy producers permission to strengthen some of their poorer grades by chaptalization. a doctoring process devised by one Jean Chaptal for adding sugar during fermentation to build up a wine's alcoholic content...
...World War II. But Maria was undeterred. She won a scholarship at the old National Conservatory, where for the next four years she arrived early, left late, learned a libretto in a week (usual time: two months). She sang for Italian and German soldiers, who gave her bags of sugar and macaroni to help feed her family. She weighed 200 Ibs. "She never flirted. Nobody courted her. She was awkward and ashamed," says her teacher. "She had a real inferiority complex except about one thing: her voice...
Though the country is only one-fourth arable, increasing farm efficiency and mechanization have made it self-sufficient in dairy products, sugar, potatoes and most meats; nearly self-sufficient in rye, barley, oats, fruits and vegetables. The capital has been rebuilt with new buildings constructed along baroque lines to retain the city's distinctive flavor. An enormous six-story, block-square office building is rising in Vienna, and more than 300,000 new apartments have been put up, more than replacing the 200,000 destroyed in the fierce World War II fighting. Building has boomed so fast, in fact...
Married. Phil Silvers, 44, comic of stage (Top Banana, 1951-53) and TV (Sergeant Bilko); and Evelyn Patrick, 23, the sugar-coating on The $64,000 Question's commercials; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Haven, Conn...