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Franco's real need was hard cash to back his paper money, and last week it drove him to something unprecedented in his 20 years as dictator. He had some soft words for that arch villain of a hundred speeches, Soviet Russia. While Spaniards listened in astonishment, Franco declared: "Once Russia halts her persecutions, threats, and subversive actions toward other nations, there will be nothing against Russia as a nation or Russians as a people...
...Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent of the early Fonteyn's. Although the restrictions of Pagodas' choreography gave the critics less to rave about last week, Beriosova displayed the classic arch-of-back and lift-of-leg passages that have moved her audiences in the past. There is still no indication of when 37-year-old Margot Fonteyn will finally step down, but when she does, the Sadler's Wells company may well find in Beriosova a talented replacement...
Only three weeks had passed since the University of Michigan announced that the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford Motor Company Fund had given it 210 acres, including the home of Henry Ford, and $6,500,000 to start a branch college at Dearborn (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week Arch Rival Michigan State University of East Lansing announced a windfall of its own-the 1,400-acre Oakland County estate belonging to the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. In addition, the Wilsons were kicking in $2,000,000 to endow an M.S.U...
Night of the Auk (by Arch Oboler) took place on a rocket ship returning to the earth from man's first landing on the moon (time: "The day after some tomorrow"). The mood of the return voyage is far from jubilant, what with a loathed egomaniac in command, a succession of murders and suicides, the discovery that full-scale atomic war has broken out on earth, and the knowledge that the rocket ship itself is almost surely doomed. Playwright Oboler seems indeed to be prophesying that the atomic age may end up with man as extinct as the great...
...Betsy Ross's first husband, John, ran an upholstery shop on Arch Street in Philadelphia. When Ross was killed on patrol duty in January 1776, Betsy took over the business...