Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profound gratitude for it ... The idea for the movie came about when a young producer friend of mine was showing a 16-mm. film history of the 34th ("Red Bull") Division, and I saw my own tank destroyer in action in Italy. I got very excited and decided to write a war story. I will be grateful my whole life for such a profound, incisive and very beautifully written analysis of what I was trying...
...prison term drew to its close, foresighted Prisoner McKerrow took the precaution of applying for a job as an accountant in England. Last week he was reluctantly forced to write his prospective employers to tell them that he might be delayed in reporting for duty. A shortage of $1.400 in the prison books and a considerable cache of money found in Mc-Kerrow's cell led to an investigation, a trial, and the sentencing of Robert John Edwin McKerrow to 18 months more at "hard" labor...
...Somalia. As a matter of national pride, the Italians took seriously the job of sprucing up Somaliland. They repaired the war damage, started port developments and irrigation programs, built new hospitals and dispensaries, and tripled the number of native schools (though only one Somali in 100 can read and write). Somali tribesmen, mindful of their hatred of the Mussolini colonial era, at first conducted a war of terrorism against the territory's Italians, killing more Europeans than were slain in Kenya's Mau Mau revolt. But tribesmen have been won over by Italy's patience and good...
When in 1950 Congress offered to let Puerto Rico write its own constitution, MunÕz helped draft it and happily saw it approved, 375,000 to 83,000. The constitution makes Puerto Rico self-governing in local affairs, gives it a relationship to the U.S. defined in the official Spanish term as Estado Libre Asociado (Free Associated State); the official translation is Commonwealth. Congress' laws, notably the draft, apply to Puerto Rico, but because the island has no vote in Con gress it is spared the income...
...best way to become known. But this comes at a price: up to $500 for a fortnight's rent on the Left Bank, $750 or more on the right. In addition, the artist must usually crank out his own publicity, pay a critic (in cash or paintings) to write a catalogue preface, try to talk an aperitif manufacturer into serving free drinks. Even then the gallery pockets 20% to 33% of the sales...