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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Valencia, the handsome, strong-willed first lady of Spain's monarchist movement. Before a military tribunal in Madrid last week, she faced charges of sending an anti-Franco letter to President Truman and distributing copies of it in Spain, using the mails for subversive propaganda and attempts to form a monarchist underground...
...printed form, The Lottery had almost as many interpretations as it had readers. As adapted for TV, it was an emotionally moving, if logically unconvincing, indictment of prejudice. "They did a beautiful job," commented Author Jackson, "except that I don't think it was my story...
...canvas in broad, brilliant, arbitrary splashes, and raising it to an intensity never before equaled in Western painting. Rouault trowels on his colors like hot coals, achieving the richness and emotional impact of Gothic stained glass-which also shuts nature out. Braque, who is more interested in form than color, leads the eye on surprising new adventures by painting shapes that seem to shift and change as one looks at them. The results may sometimes shock; they can also feed the imagination with the fire of new experience...
ATOM BOMB OUTLAWED; NATIONS OF WORLD BAN WAR IN ANY FORM...
...revolution was achieved by substiuting mechanical energy for human and animal energy on a vast scale, by developing mass production, better distribution, and "a multitude of new and improved machines," e.g., earth movers, cranes, mechanical mixers, coal-mining machines. Also developed was a complex new form of industrial organization to integrate the vast numbers of men and machines. Said C.E.D.: "The managers of 100 years ago [could not] administer enterprises ... as large as those in modern industry . . ." To run the huge new enterprises, corporations had perfected a vast system of management, run by staff and line officers, in turn guided...