Word: line
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgian Congo, young King Baudouin arrived on a hastily planned flight from Brussels to see for himself what could be salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans must be content with local self-rule now, with a gradual transition to independence in 1964. His plans collapsed when Joseph Kasavubu's big Abako Party and other native groups announced a boycott of territorial elections, the first step in De Schrijver's plan for a slow evolution. As nervous...
Susse's reputation for fine sculpture casting runs back 200 years. André Susse, 49, the seventh in the Susse line of foun-drymen, is a meticulous craftsman and connoisseur. Over the years, Susse Brothers has played host and helper to such far-flung makers of sculpture history as Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Henry Moore, Germaine Richier, and the painter-sculptors Picasso, Giacometti, Braque, Dali and Chagall...
...dramatic cantatas" that he will permit none of them to be translated, although he himself seems intrigued by foreign idioms. When working on Oedipus, he decided to write the musical directions in Italian, the stage directions in Latin, e.g., the entrance of the two children is signaled by the line "Inducuntur Oedipodis liberi Antigone et Ismene...
...four industrial centers, producing more than 90% of the nation's aluminum; at Anzio, south of Rome, the greatest excitement since the Allied landing is Colgate-Palmolive's new $10 million soap and cosmetics plant, turning out 120 different items on a semi-automated production line. "That plant," says one admiring competitor, "is a monument to private enterprise...
Pillow Talk. A songwriting satyr (Rock Hudson) and an interior decorator (Doris Day) share a party line-and more-in this flashy film. But Comic Tony Randall comes off with the pillow's best feathers...