Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next Day-Pfft." Bulganin's career illustrates this interlocking of interests among the Kremlin gang. As a Chekist in home-town Nizhni Novgorod, he served under Kaganovich (1918), Molotov (1919), Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...
Corks & Coexistence. On his own, Bulganin has at times surprised Western diplomats by his uninhibited outspokenness. Once, when the other committeemen were out of town, he accepted a toast to the Soviet government: "I can drink to that. Tonight, I am the Soviet government." Bulganin's pet refrain since he started partygoing has been that the Soviet Union is determined to avoid war. "Down with war," he shouted at a recent reception. "I say that as commanding general of all the armed forces of the Soviet Union." Later, a champagne cork popped loudly, and Bulganin quickly added...
...Rome's international set, the Via Veneto is outdoor club, place of business, trading post and town pump. At the tables, porcine movie producers discuss deals over an aperitivo, sad-eyed young English poets finger their last published articles, handsomely tailored young men while away their time, expertly assess the jewels on neighboring matrons and debate whether to offer their services as escorts. Sauntering by in an endless stream are pretty, dark girls with swelling bosoms and swelling hopes of catching a producer's eye, gawking tourists from Germany, Switzerland or the U.S., or uninhibited Italian families...
...that it produced during the past season. Among the wonders: a repeat of last season's successful Peter Pan; a two-hour telecast of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, starring Mary Martin and Helen Hayes; a musical version of the Pulitzer Prize play Our Town, starring Frank Sinatra; a series of one-and-a-half-hour Sunday afternoon productions of Shakespeare's plays, starring Maurice Evans; a series of 90-minute original TV plays by the best TV playwrights NBC can lay hands...
...merely boyish high spirits rather than voyeurism. Similarly, an unexpected shore leave on the island of Elysium has no more reality than the island's name: though the crew is alleged to have got drunk and disorderly, to have broken up a dinner-dance, disrobed six of the town's debutantes, sacked the home of the-French governor-under the impression that it was a brothel-and put 38 soldiers in the hospital, there is never a hint of malicious mischief in their fun. A soft reprimand from Fonda is sufficient to calm the most riotous of them...