Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent almost down the line. Nancy Wickwire gives us a radiant Helena; and if she does not show quite the blazing drive desired, she does still bring a good deal of the proper Shavian sheen to the part. John Ragin, moving from a series of small parts to take over the important and impossible role of the scornful cad Bertram on very short notice, showed no visible signs today of trouble, and will doubtless continue to make a favorable impression...
...world's dourest Calvinist communities. Among its grimmest is the former islet of Urk (pop. 5,500), a fishing village on the Zuider Zee. On Sundays, Urkers still separate their hens from the roosters, turn their paintings to the wall, read only one book (the Bible), take only one processional walk (to church). Doing anything else is sinful. For years life in Urk was pretty routine, and the town constable's daily report invariably read: "Nothing has happened." That was before Urk ceased to be an island...
Middle-Class Grumbling. Opposition to Trujillo comes mostly from the middle and upper classes-about a quarter of the population of 2,800,000. "These people travel and have broader knowledge," explains a foreign resident in Ciudad Trujillo. "They hate to take orders. They live well but insecurely...
That particular bomb was tame, but burly Major Arthur Hartley. 49, whose job since World War II has been to take the bang out of bombs, says that Britain's dud problem is getting worse instead of better. Of 505 unexploded bombs still on the Home Office charts, about 50% are considered "safe." But the rest range up to 4,600-lb. "Satans" equipped with multiple fuses of fiendish design-and the British are sure that there are hundreds more buried, unnoticed, deep in the soil. In many cases, the explosive is getting more sensitive as the years pass...
AMERICAN businessmen must now take the role of the businessmen-diplomats of 50 years ago." Few men practice their preachments with more determined zeal than the author of those words, Norman Kenneth Winston, 59, an impish-faced, meticulously dressed man who ranks among the world's biggest builders (more than 20,000 houses and apartments worth $300 million), runs so many construction and real estate companies (more than 100) that he has lost count, manages a huge personal fortune ($40 million)-and still finds time to hustle continuously from continent to continent as envoy extraordinaire of U.S. capitalism. This...