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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast . . . The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being." -John Ruskin Six thousand feet above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years and his 20,000 flying hours, Pilot Laurens Claude flicked the switches, cutting the bad power plant and feathering its propeller. On her three good engines...
...picture scores a clear victory as a depressing document on the Roman terrain, particularly the remains of Mussolini's passion for majestic expanses of concrete. And De Sica's directing of his child star-Staiola's meanderings and scramblings, his thousand & one childish mannerisms, from unbuttoning his pants to his perplexed concentration on the chattering face of an Austrian priest-is worth several admission prices...
...Four thousand dollars short of the total that campaign directors had anticipated for a four day period, Leonard M. Gordon '51, vice-chairman of the drive said last night, "We're going to keep going until we get as close to 100 percent as we think is humanly possible...
...desperately cramped state, West Germany has been further burdened by a staggering influx of 9,000,000 refugees from the East-members of German minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the Western zones. Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space...
...signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray Marcos in the vanguard...