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Grab & Give. Stalin had attempted his "final" solution to the Polish-Russian question at the Potsdam peace table. He had already annexed a huge tract of Polish territory in the east (see map), and as compensation he now sliced most of Pomerania from Germany and "gave" it to Poland. Pretending that the Poles had gained materially from this deal, he demanded that Polish coal exports be sold to Russia at a nominal price per ton (about one-seventh the market price). He also arranged that Germany should pay Poland reparations, but these he collected himself. He then forced the Poles...
More realistic animation is successfully combined with the sound tract when Stravinsky's Rite of Spring sets the tempo for the creation of Earth, and the growth of life upon it, including a battle between two prehistoric monsters. In contrast, Disney parodies Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" in a fine comic ballet of elephants, hippotamuses, alligators and ostriches...
...patient's life expectancy. ¶Because certain cancers take up phosphorus more readily than healthy tissues do, a University of Minnesota team headed by Dr. Donald B. Shahon tried using a radioactive form of the element (phosphorus 32) to reach hard-to-find cancers of the intestinal tract. It has helped surgeons to detect diseased tissues in a stage before full-blown cancer could be proved...
...other hand, is excellent: always in scale, always in key. And Norma Crane does some wonderful flobbing around the screen as the slavey and general grab bag at the local hash house. 1984. (Holiday; Columbia). Things to come, as George Orwell saw them in his clever antitotalitarian tract, written in 1949, have assumed a horrifying political shape by 1984. The State is everything, terror is normalcy, love is a crime. Political shapes, however, are not the kind that lure millions to the movies, even in an election year. What's more, the camera has not yet been invented that...
...which urged Morocco's Berber minority to rebel against "Arab domination" and "the Arab Sultan." No one seriously believed that a handful of leaflets would succeed in inflaming the Berbers, who are fiercely loyal to Sultan Mohammed V. Nonetheless, the Moroccan government had decided to use "the Berber tract affair" as an excuse for mass deportation of French extremist leaders...