Word: clear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such a quiet "great purpose," which is not the stuff of headlines, the U.S. could contribute to the world a clear and enduring leadership which is not the stuff of Communism...
Economic Commissar. With the shakeup, the form of the Castro government, months in the shaping, came clear. Fidel Castro, who helicopters about the country dispensing largesse from the blue National Bank checkbook he always carries in his breast pocket, is political chief. His pony-tailed brother Raul is military boss, commanding the 35,000-man rebel army that is the regime's principal arm of force and terror, notably for rounding up all suspected oppositionists on a charge of "counterrevolution" (last week's bag: 250 prisoners...
...minutes, was credited with helping to save the woman's life. (The sheep also recovered after a brief feverish illness.) Last week Dr. Pavone-Macaluso said that he wanted to try the technique again, but with a bigger donor animal-and hence a larger blood volume-to clear the patient's blood faster. In fact, he said, if he could figure out a way to get it into the operating room, he would like to use an elephant...
Eddie Fisher, when he finally appeared to sing, turned out to be neither very good nor awful. He belted out such numbers as Another Autumn, Wish You Were Here, Let Me Entertain You in a loud, clear voice, without much style or emotional variety. But he was an undisputed smash with the customers who packed the Empire Room night after night, long after Liz, the Prince and the stubborn Brooklyn dentist had departed. Having lost his TV show in the furor over his divorce from Debbie Reynolds, and suffering chronically from poor record sales, Eddie Fisher seemed to be making...
...sprightliest. Out went some of Tuesday's boring repetitions of what Pravda, the only-paper in Russia with a Monday edition, had said the day before. On the front page, once the unassailable domain of party catechisms, news stories surprisingly appeared, and the ponderous headlines (A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE AND OF RALLYING AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY) became downright breezy (I VISITED THE VINNITSA SPY CENTER and BONN FLIRTS WITH MADRID). Pictures bloomed all over, and the subjects were gay: babies, dogs, water skiers and movie starlets...