Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explosion on Sept. 23, 1949, the daily press was already scooped: Josten had turned out the same news in his bulletin 30 hours before. Again, while Prague's Communist Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis was safe at the United Nations, Josten's paper warned him of a Red plot to sack him; Clementis disregarded it, returned to Prague, and, three months later, was sacked, and finally disappeared completely...
...plot, said Peking, was hatched almost a year ago. On Oct. 1, Red China's National Day, when Mao and all other Red bigwigs would be standing on a reviewing stand before Peking's Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic...
...executions of Riva and Yamaguchi were carried out immediately after the "plot" was announced. Reported Radio Peking: as the condemned were led to their death, "the streets they passed through were thronged with people who expressed their feelings .. . with shouts of 'Down with imperialism! Suppress counterrevolutionaries! Long live Chairman...
Written by Radio Scripter Cy (My Friend Irma) Howard, That's My Boy reaches its comedy high in the opening slapstick sequences between Mayehoff and Lewis, then runs steadily downhill through a thicket of Freudian ABCs and the labored plot complications that lead to Jerry's coming through in the big game...
Makings of a Saint. The plot is routine -a middle-aged doctor and his young son each fall in love with the same kept woman-but Mauriac fashions a somber and moving story of frustrated love. The father, Dr. Courregès, has had a drab life, and he idealizes Maria Cross, the mistress of a wine merchant, imagines her as wronged by the whole world. Son Raymond does no idealizing; in his grubby way he just wants to go to bed with...