Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unknown Incident. All week long, Russia's stooges in the Syrian government obligingly kept up a drumfire of public accusations against Turkey and the U.S. Chief of Staff Afif Bizri charged that Turkish and U.S. planes from the Sixth Fleet were violating Syrian air space, and the Damascus press claimed that the planes had swept in over northern border towns at rooftop level to terrorize the population. Next day newsmen asked the Foreign Ministry's official spokesman if Syria planned a diplomatic protest. Astonished, the official asked who had reported the incident, was told Bizri had. "Well, that...
...Russians can hit the moon, as their moviemakers have promised (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The moon and its gravitational field are a big target. A trip around the moon should not be difficult either, but a pretty big projectile would be needed to report what it sees on the unknown far side...
...Here is a young man, reaching for expression in a field largely unknown and presumably forbidden to him," said Cordier. The paintings indicated little more than a novice's groping attempts at abstract art, but they showed a high degree of artistic consciousness. They also gave proof that no matter how tightly sealed off Russian painters may be, there is, as one Parisian artgoer put it, "only one cosmos...
...Michael Weighing the Souls (opposite), a side panel on an altar of a small church in the Ribes Valley, was painted (by an unknown artist) with all the suspense of a morality play acted out upon a stage. The good saint is seen in the act of weighing souls with the Devil, before a splendid red background decorated with gold stars. Michael has caught the Devil cheating by tipping the scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail...
...Cinemactor Marlon Brando, 33, got spruced up (the unwashed jeans lately have stood empty while their owner sported a blue suit, necktie and Hom-burg), drove to Eagle Rock, near Pasadena, and got married. Then with his bride, demure, olive-skinned, sari-swathed Starlet Anna Kashfi, 23, almost as unknown as any of the carhops and hat-nappers he has dated while snubbing the screen's more famous ladies, "Hollywood's most eligible bachelor" vanished in a cloud of idle speculation. Was there a Welshman in the woodpile? Was Dar-jeeling-born Anna's real name Johanna...