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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also unearthed was a "Venus" stone carving, which may have been related to some sort of "fertility cult." Unlike most "Venuses" of this type, which are usually of very obese women with gross stomachs and breasts, this specimen is more slender and graceful...
...girls, Sophie, played by Francoise Arnoul, has a mysterious fixation for a clubby, killer type named Sforzi (you can tell he's a bad guy because he wears a vest). Sforzi has deep seated homocidal designs on an evil father image, Baron von Bergen, who has made his fortunate counterfeiting British pound notes during the war and turned Sforzi from a nice, simple peasant lad into a well-groomed unhappy killer. Into the midst of this sick triangle comes big suave Paris photographer Michel LaFaurie, played by Christian Marquand, who immediately falls in love with Sophie and gets caught...
...left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco), and Minnesota's Humphrey is working on a broader farm bill that will include some Brannan direct payment gimmicks...
...made in the U.S. was almost as big as a commercial laundry machine and cost up to $7,000. Dr. Kolff has now got it down to a stainless-steel tub 24 in. across, 17 in. high. Three-fourths of the artificial kidneys in U.S. use are of this type, made by the Travenol division of Baxter Laboratories. Cost: $1,300. Most important economy feature: instead of big moving parts that took hours to sterilize and set up, the core of the kidney now consists of a disposable unit of cellophane and plastic wire, not much bigger than a quart...
...Association wisely asks that Congress deal with each recommendation as a separate bill, rather than in an omnibus action restricting the Court's jurisdiction. Such omnibus legislation, not only dangerous but of dubious constitutional validity, was twice proposed in the Eighty-fifth Congress. The ABA's attack on this type of action and its defense of the Court as an institution are welcome...