Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper, we're in wonderful shape now as far as time is concerned," she said. "But by Sunday we might be ten minutes over. There's no way of telling about the timing. Alistair (Alistair Cooke, the show's regular emcee who arrived in town Thursday night to speak to the Nieman Fellows) has done the show long enough so that he knows exactly what a minute is. But the other people on the show won't. That's why we need to rehearse so much...
...also in these big cities where it is easiest to buy consumer goods. Malia, for instance, lost his pair of nail clippers in Kiev, and there was not even a pair of scissors in the biggest department store in town. And in Leningrad, he bought the last pair of gloves in the biggest department store there. Both these items were available in abundance in Moscow. Similarly, it is only the five or six largest cities in Russia which have television...
...level of education in the Soviet Union is high, according to Malia. Virtually every town has a so-called seven-year school, and at present plans are being made to make a ten-year school compulsory. The Russian child starts his formal education at the age of seven...
...usual number of minor riots were propagated last night in the College area. Linden and Bow Sts. were centers of furious activity as was the Yard. Linden was doused liberally from windows, and Bow was the scene of snow-balling exercises between town and gown. Radcliffe girls engaged in sporadic conflicts in their Quad...
Silk to War. Marion Tilton's first job was to convince the textile men that silk stockings were finished. She did this by appearing in nylon stockings at factories, at geisha parties, town banquets, whereever there was an audience. She talked about the new U.S. synthetics, then dramatically rolled down her nylons, pulled, stretched, even washed them. She persuaded textile men to compete in the U.S. in fabrics...