Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there had been any hope that Molotov would prove conciliatory, it ended when the Russian presented Moscow's version of the way to reunite Germany...
...Dowsett, chairman of an East Anglian shipbuilding firm, who has been canvassing Moscow for weeks. Dowsett called his $17 million contract (the only one signed and sealed) the "biggest single order for merchant shipping ever placed," but he carefully neglected to mention that it was a 30% smaller version of an order that has been gathering dust in the British Board of Trade (and in the Kremlin) since he first accepted it a year...
...their number than their size. The fact is that the vast Communist bloc, with one-third of the world's population, decreased its proportion of world imports from 1.81% in 1952 to 1.66% in 1953. Partly, this is because the Reds, seeking self-sufficiency. impose their own version of the U.S. Battle Act.* More important, the Communists are too poor to pay for what they want...
...from high to low was far more interested in a burning local question: How did Wilma Montesi die? At first glance, it seemed she must have drowned. An attractive, 21-year-old girl, Wilma Montesi was found dead on the beach at Ostia, Rome's somewhat more elegant version of Coney Island, more than a year ago. The young brickworker who found her skirtless body was momentarily fascinated by the Teddy bears embroidered on her panties, but neither he nor anyone else at the time saw reason to question the official verdict: "Death by accidental drowning." Wilma, the police...
...months persistent rumors have been making the rounds of Buenos Aires and cropping up abroad that Perón is ill. One version: the President has a brain tumor, plans to go to the famed Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, in the near future for an operation. Another: he has an unidentified nervous disorder accompanied by fainting spells...