Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre Alleman farm north of Des Moines, a guide explained that young (25) Richard Alleman would need one helper for his harvest. "One!" shouted a Soviet official. "By us a hundred!" Busily they searched around for field hands and superior officials. A guide explained: "Two things still trouble them: Where are all the other workers, and who specifically tells each farmer what to plant?" In the Soviet Union, after 38 years of Communism, production of some major foods (meat, butter, milk) has fallen below czarist levels; in Iowa, during the same period, production has increased 60%. One visiting Russian last...
...Confidential magazine and two of its imitators, legal troubles were piling up last week. In Los Angeles Superior Court, Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke slapped a $3,000,000 libel suit on Confidential and Publisher Robert Harrison for a scurrilous article about her and a Negro handyman and chauffeur whom the magazine said she once employed. Confidential's implication of "indecent acts" is "completely and entirely false and untrue," said her suit (the fifth libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said...
TOUR DE FORCE, by Christianna Brand (272 pp.; Scribner; $2.75), might be regarded as a superior mystery if it had been written by a newcomer, but from the author of Fog of Doubt it is disappointing. This time Author Brand blithely switches the point of view from chapter to chapter, for no apparent reason. The payoff to her mystery, furthermore, is a disastrously frayed cliché. But the Brand strength lies in a vivid setting and amusing characters. Her setting in this case-an independent kingdom on an island in the Mediterranean-is as believable and as funny as something...
...French press relations could be improved. De Gaulle sent for Laguerre and asked if he could improve them. "Oui, mon general," said Laguerre. Thus he became press officer for the Free French and, when the war ended, head of the press department of the new French government. His immediate superior and last boss before he joined our staff early in 1946 was Minister of Information André Malraux...
...ruling, decided at a meeting of the Association of Mothers Superior of Manila's Roman Catholic girls' schools, struck a blow that might be mortal to the Philippines' growing interest in the ballet...