Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took umbrage. "Old Jeff," cried he, "shouldn't be banned to the basement." Once part of the decor in the Defense Secretary's office, Old Jeff's portrait was rehung last week, upstairs in a prominent spot on the wall of an endless Pentagon hall. Still unknown: the identity of the carpetbagger who had kicked Jeff Davis downstairs...
...worked, with no success, in a succession of sleazy cafes in Casablanca, Oran and Algiers ("I don't like to sing against the sound of popping champagne corks"). After a spell as a secretary (in a music publishing house) and as a band vocalist, she moved, still virtually unknown, into the role of Irma...
...reluctance to accept revival of any sort of Comintern; 2) coordinated moves to follow up Poland's plan for creating a "denuclearized" zone in central Europe; 3) Gomulka's bullheaded insistence on trying to borrow some $100 million from the U.S. rather than from the U.S.S.R. Results: unknown...
What Biologist Cornman wants to see is a concerted research effort to study everything in man's environment, on the chance that it would solve the riddle of many types of cancer for which the cause is still unknown. The project would resemble the mass screening, currently under way, of all substances now on chemists' shelves, in the hope of finding cures for cancer. A major difficulty: the job is so huge that it would keep hundreds of laboratories working full blast. With the chemists churning out so many new products, Dr. Cornman concedes: "We will have...
...Crimson team is as yet something of an unknown quantity. Graduation made heavy inroads on last year's fine squad and tonight's contest will provide the first varsity competition for a number of the Crimson entrants...