Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confusion, he escaped to Belgium, earned his living shining combat boots for the 82nd Airborne Division and other U.S. units, absorbed a rugged version of colloquial American. Later he joined a two-bit traveling circus, where he led a two-man band, painted spots on garter snakes to turn them into "American rattlesnakes," had the job of poking a senile lion in the rump to make him roar...
...already made another record. Heimatlos (Homeless), which has hit the 1,000,000 mark, has still another, Die Gitarre und das Meer (The Guitar and the Sea), that is climbing fast and was released in the U.S. last week. He has three hit movies behind him and a turn-of-the-century Hamburg mansion to show for it all-which makes it hard to keep the sound of loneliness authentic in his verbeulte Stimme (beat-up voice). Still, says he, "I'll go right on trying to sing natural-and to stay...
...interior of Asia Minor, a great king named Midas. The Greeks were awed by his enormous wealth, amused by his odd taste in music. To celebrate the first they grew the legend of the "Midas touch." The king had once wished, they said, that everything he touched would turn to gold, and his wish was granted, even to the inclusion of whatever touched his lips. Before the laughing gods allowed him to rescind his wish, Midas almost died of thirst. As for his taste in music, Midas had the long, pointed ears of an ass, according to the Greeks, because...
...opens a new chapter in the history of art, providing a missing link between the culture of the Euphrates basin and that of archaic Greece. Similarities in style show that Greek traders and marauders must have brought home in their hollow ships a mass of Phrygian treasure-which in turn helped shape Greek...
...Turning Tide. The result of the change in world steel is that the U.S. share of world-market production last year dropped to 28%, less than at the turn of the century. U.S. exports to Italy fell from $13.5 million to $8.1 million within two years, not because of Italy's steel-production gains but because other nations made better offers. Great Britain bought 450,000 tons of U.S. sheet-steel exports for her auto industry in the mid-19505, but the price she paid caused shudders in the industry; she has now cut her U.S. sheet imports...