Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have not become redundant...
...Kookie Kombs" by the thousands. When a Los Angeles disk jockey casually asked his listeners "Should Kookie cut his hair?" he promptly got 5,000 replies (100-to-1 against cutting). Warners is now planning to market Kookie billfolds and perhaps belts, and Actor Byrnes is breathless with the wonder of it all. "My ambitions are so great that I can't discuss them," says he. "I just stand in awe of them...
Your April 13 photograph of Boston's Cardinal Cushing taking the political stump for Senator John Kennedy's henchman implants the kiss of death on the Boston Boy Wonder's presidential hopes...
...cried the non-partisan Protestant weekly Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent news agency to party interests...
With the possible exception of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Russia's Bolshoi Ballet is the most extravagantly praised and least frequently viewed wonder of the world. The company's triumphant London visit three years ago (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) marked its first appearance on a Western stage. Last week, amid box office uproar (see SHOW BUSINESS), Impresario Sol Hurok finally welcomed the Bolshoi to Manhattan for the start of a nine-week cross-continent tour. The long-awaited look was not a disappointment. But, as with many such wonders, the anticipation was somewhat more exciting than the actuality...