Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asking Price. Traveling ballet troupes and mutual exchanges of praiseworthy banalities were, of course, getting to be old stuff. But the new turn in last week's accumulation of events was the emergence of the Big Two as a conscious entity. To Nixon, as to previous U.S. visitors, Khrushchev voiced the opinion that world peace could be guaranteed if only the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could get together. But Khrushchev's more crucial decision to give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four...
...desperate note to "Mr. Judge" was scrawled by Untamed, who knew no other word for the law. Last week, riding in a police car, the children clutched one another in terror-though Conqueror soon asked the cop for a turn at the wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping...
...hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized iron and dunked in a swimming pool for an hour and a half. (Skeptics insisted that he had chemicals in the coffin to absorb carbon dioxide. But Houdini simply knew what turn-of-the-century doctors did not: the coffin contained all the air he needed...
...Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France's Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment...
...Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France's Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment...