Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first European sovereign to make a state visit to France since World War II, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands was treated to the full red carpet in Paris (see cut). Tulips sprouted from chocolate boxes and gloves in store windows; flags and bunting hung from balconies and windows; cavalry parades, civic receptions and state galas snarled up the already tangled Paris traffic. After three days of it, Juliana and Prince Consort Bernhard flew home, worn out but happy...
...atomic bomb. After leaving the Manhattan Project. Dr. Gofman went to medical school and in 1946 got his M.D. He is now an assistant professor of medical physics at Donner Laboratory in Berkeley, and senior member of the large team which has been probing the molecular make-up of the blood...
Experimenting on a rabbit, Dr. Jacobson found that when the spleen and appendix were protected with lead, the animal survived what would otherwise have been a fatal overdose of X rays. The undamaged spleen and appendix make enough blood to enable the damaged tissue to recover...
...Good Points. Unhappily, 1949-50 did not make up in brilliance for what it lacked in bulk. The most that could be said was that it had its good points and incidental graces and one or two peak moments. However controversial in theme, T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party offered the best new stage writing in years. And though Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding (winner of the Critics' Award) might have trouble proving itself a play, it too could take pride in much of its writing. Better still, both these very individual works, like...
...years Dmitri Shostakovich had been trying to "reconstruct" his composing to make his music fall more sweetly on the Kremlin ear. It seemed that was not enough. Last week he was told how fast he should compose. Complained the Soviet Composers Union in Pravda: Shostakovich had not worked hard enough to finish his new opera on the 1917 Russian Revolution, October. While comradely criticisms were being passed around, piped Pravda, the Composers Union had shown too much "complacency" about the whole matter itself...