Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face. In the old version, a flirtation then began. In the Red version, she says sweetly: "How can you sleep while foreign imperialists are sucking the blood of your people?" The shepherd rises, flexes his muscles, recognizes his duty, and exits with the girl into the sunset...
...brought by: 1) Argentina's hottest summer in 16 years; 2) currency difficulties that kept most Argentines away from Uruguay's resorts; 3) plenty of inflated pesos. Some of the pesos were flung away by newly rich industrialists plunging at punto y banco, a South American version of baccarat. But most of the money came from the pockets of vacationing descamisados, who preferred roulette. The casino's main hall looked like Macy's basement as players pushed and shoved to bet at the 71 roulette tables. Most of them ignored the more conservative red-and-black...
...reply, the vestry got out another letter presenting its version of the situation. They had been "informed," said the vestrymen, that "it was the unanimous recommendation of the Bishop and the Standing Committee that . . . it would be for the best interests of the Parish and the Diocese if both the Rector and the Assistant Minister resigned...
President Truman's plea for federal aid to the housing industry will get a "liberalized version" of the 1947 Taft- Fliender-Wagner Bill from the 81st Congress, G. Holmes Perkins '26, professor of Regional Planning, told the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Smith began dickering to sell his overseas subsidiary to Pan American Airways Corp., he did not mention it to American's president, Ralph S. Damon. Smith knew what Damon would say. Damon had been the most outspoken critic of Pan Am President Juan Trippe's version of the "chosen instrument" (one "community" line made up of several U.S. airlines) in U.S. international aviation...