Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet maneuver seems designed primarily to force Western recognition of Otto Grotewohl's East German regime. Last winter Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced that any negotiations over German unification must be made with East Germany directly; the present demand appears to be another similarly motivated tactic. So far, the German Democratic Republic has applied no pressure comparable to that of the Soviets during the blockade of 1948-49. But if the East Germans decide to bear down on West Berlin--by closing the corridors or stopping free interchange between city sectors--then the allied authorities in Berlin may be forced...
...miles away, by the U.S. Air Force's well-organized supply lines and standby rescue teams. Other invaluable tools: physical courage and determination. Nothing less than courage would serve the 20 lonely men drifting in the cold Arctic Sea through 20-hour summer days and 24-hour winter nights...
Onetime varsity letterman and later an assistant coach at Annapolis, Martin went to Colorado Springs from the University of Virginia last winter. In two years under businesslike Buck Shaw (now coach of the Philadelphia Eagles), the Falcons had been unresponsive. Martin took one look at movies of Air Force games and decided, "We had to set our sights on basics...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein will be able to pay the fuel bill this winter, with Flower Drum Song, sold out for all 4½ weeks of its Boston tryout. Advance sale in New York a month before the Broadway opening: a reported $1,000,000 plus...
...sponsors, the show was gradually dropped to the status of summer replacement-and clobbered Cornball Lawrence Welk when placed opposite him. Thus encouraged, says Kathryn, "we figured that if we were going to take a chance on being criticized, we'd rather do it on a winter show." This year the Murrays finally found a full-time evening sponsor (P. Lorillard...