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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked by U.S. newsmen at U.N. last week what he thought of Pravda's editing, Vishinsky merely snapped: "The topic is exhausted." But a Russian engineer in Berlin cleared up the whole thing in a speech at the House of Soviet Culture. The moving of mountains is still only the wish of the Soviet people and not an accomplishment, he conceded. But, he added, "since wishes and reality lie close together in the Soviet Union, one can expect the execution of the project in a short while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Fission Wishin' | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...train," Moncaster told his superior officers, "and I went to sleep. The next thing I knew, I was walking around a town seeing Russian soldiers on the street. At first the Russians didn't notice me, but on the third day they turned up at my girl friend's house and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lorelei & the Private | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...little mink thing" is running first again this year, on the list of "what I would like for Christmas." After that come all sorts of jewelry--earrings--preferably exotic drop varieties, or the ceramic carrings sold at the Window Shop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Handy Shoppers' Guide Tells What to Buy for Him Her | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...good segment of the sports world is having itself quite a panic over the television "menace": as more and more promoters and arena owners cry out that the new entertainment medium is grabbing too many dollars out of gate receipts. What throws the whole thing into confusion, however, is the fact that there are powerful voices on the other side who are booming television as the greatest thing that's happened to sports since the coming of radio...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

Some conclusions from the project are already apparent to the staff. "Our work shows an extra-ordinary variability in human beings," Dr. Heath says. "We early gave up the idea that there is such a thing as a normal person...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

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