Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Daniels took over ARA a little over a year, ago, he argued for recognition of "Tacho" Somoza's puppet President Victor Román y Reyes in Nicaragua. Daniels realistically pointed out that nonrecognition had failed to weaken Tacho's grip on his volcano-ridged nation, and had put the U.S. into the position of refusing to recognize an established fact...
...singers and record men, RCA Victor last week showed a prized secret. It was in the shape of a new seven-inch, unbreakable, paper-thin record that played as much music as a 12-inch ($1.31) disc. But it will reportedly sell for much less. There was one big catch; the record had to be played at 45 revolutions a minute (instead of the standard 78). Thus, to play it, phonograph owners would need an expensive special attachment...
...proceedings were conducted with dignity and in a spirit of fair play which diverted attention from the underlying absence of clarity. After three years of war trials, however, the world is no farther along than it was in 1945 to an understanding of whether these proceedings represent justice or victor's vengeance -of whether or not the chalice is poisoned...
...Edward Victor Appleton has spent most of his 56 years with his head in the clouds. He has accomplished a lot up there. "The ionosphere," a colleague once said of Sir Edward, "is his playground." He proved the theory that the earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
...Victor Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBC). Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, with Baritone Robert Merrill. Premiere...