Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like watching the village idiot for a couple of hours--the experience can be amusing, but it leaves a strangely bitter after-taste. The pitiful "hero" of the play, Uncle Daniel Ponder, is in fact a sort of village idiot of a small southern town. The inheritor of a vast estate, he grew to middle age without ever growing up. He spends his time playing with the local children, but some obscure loneliness finally drives him to marry a backwoods girl he picked up in a soda fountain. When the girl, who is even more childish than Ponder himself, dies...
Five leading West German industrialists left today on a six-week good will mission to Far Eastern countries. Tomorrow, Alfred Krupp, head of the vast Ruhr concern, departs for a tour of India, Pakistan, Thailand, and Egypt...
...unstable Middle East, the State Department believes, such vast economic improvement will help bring stability and help strengthen Egypt against Communist attempts at penetration...
Such are the implications of the story between the lines of the Economic Report - as exciting a story as modern man has ever read of the vast changes in his own time...
...princely wealth, a vast palace near the Bois de Boulogne, a handsome wife and a son. He also had mistresses: the first, an opera singer, had refused to marry him ("As long as I'm only his mistress, I'm still free. His authority is incomplete"). He despised Automaker Andre Citroen, but enjoyed competing with him, was even a little regretful when Citroen went broke in 1934 trying to build a plant as modern as Renault's. "It was a dirty trick, showing him my place," Louis grinned...