Word: two-year-old
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...Problem of Poverty. Captain Sam Grant discovers chubby, two-year-old Ulysses in Georgetown, Ohio, sitting with "chronic composure" when a pistol goes off in his hand. It follows the slight, taciturn young man through the training grounds of West Point and the Mexican War, leaves him a newly commissioned colonel of 39 in the ominous year 1861. Convinced that "biography is not instruction or teaching-but is just a story that happens to be true," Lewis has taken much of the stiffness and the stuffiness out of the Grant legend, and relegated the gossip about his minor vices...
...committeemen had gone into the valley last November to investigate a two-year-old strike of the National Farm Labor Union (A.F.L.) against the biggest ranch of them all, the n,000-acre Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., producers of $5.9 million worth of grapes, plums, potatoes and asparagus each year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed...
...soft-accented young physician with a pretty blonde wife and a two-year-old daughter moved last week into a rambling white clapboard house in Fabius, N.Y. Before his office was finished, a blizzard swirling outside brought him his first emergency case: a townswoman who had fallen on ice. For both Dr. Joseph Brudny, 33, and the twin villages of Fabius and Pompey (combined pop.: about 3,000), the beginning of his practice was the fulfillment of a dream...
...growing Anglo-American sentiment for renewed atomic talks, though such details as Winston Churchill's statement on the issue (see FOREIGN NEWS) had not yet been printed in the Russian press. The Moscow journal, Soviet State and Law, had exhumed and emphasized Joseph Stalin's two-year-old statement to Henry Wallace: "Peaceful settlements of disagreements between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. are not only possible, but absolutely essential in the interests of general peace." In principle, Russia was not against a limitation on national sovereignty; it was just against the kind of international inspection proposed...
Three Came Home (20th Century-Fox). A month after Pearl Harbor, U.S.-born Author Agnes Newton Keith, wife of a British colonial official, became a prisoner of the Japanese in North Borneo. Out of her three-year ordeal, she wrote a bestselling factual account of how she and her two-year-old son fared in tropical prison camps until liberation reunited them with the husband whom the Japanese had imprisoned near by. As a movie, done with reasonable fidelity to the book, it is often as harrowing, moving-and sometimes as monotonous-as what the war did to the Keiths...