Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radek, the man who did it all, makes no effort to avoid Maigret, who soon develops a strong suspicion that he is the actual killer. But since Maigret has no evidence whatsoever, Radek revels in taunting the inspector by all but admitting the murder. Radek, meanwhile, has collected 1,000,000 francs for the job from the impatient heir of the now disemboweled murder victim. You see plenty of Paris in the daytime from the top of the Eiffel tower; now you see fully as much of it at night, as the camera and Maigret follow Radek on a tour...
Also on the same bill of fare, Keith's Memorial is experimenting with a polyglot ordeal of short subjects briskly tabbed a "variety hour." Avoid this immediately after eating...
...elevated system, which is operated by the Soviet-controlled railroads, ran its trains 40 minutes apart in West Berlin. Angry riders jammed so tightly that glass panes were shattered. Communist rail officials explained: "[There had been] interference with the phone switchboard at the Direktion . . . We are reducing traffic to avoid catastrophes." This was an unvarnished lie: General Taylor showed correspondents (including embarrassed Communist reporters) the automatic board, clicking and blinking away as ever, and unimpaired...
...mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...
...employer wants to avoid labor trouble, he should invite the president of the local union to join his luncheon club. If he really hankers for industrial peace, he should get the union leader's daughter enrolled in a fashionable dancing school...