Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former wild men of Borneo, wanted his entire palace air-conditioned. His comely and strong-minded wife insisted that the bedrooms be left free of this 20th century improvement. "Don't worry," an aide whispered, "he'll win her over, but it will take time." For an account of some greater triumphs achieved by the Sultan of Brunei in bringing the benefits of civilization to his newly wealthy, backward land, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Well-Oiled State...
...Expensive? If stereo is in for a boom, the industry is not agreed on when it will happen or how big it will be. Some experts see tapes sweeping disks out of the market in five years; some believe that disks will always account for the bulk of the industry's sales. Victor Chief Recording Engineer William Miltenburg argues that disks will stay necessary for popular music, if nothing else, because record buyers will be unwilling to pay stereo prices for the one-shot pop hits. This raises the question of how far stereo prices can be cut. Today...
...Blankets. Author Kirst. tries doggedly to depict the mentality, talk and folkways of Americans, but except for an occasional phrase like "in the bag," the Americans sound totally Teutonic. But readers will find grim, retroactive amusement in Author Kirst's account of the hasty changes made in a German town as U.S. tanks approach: an old Nazi triumphantly reveals that his housekeeper is half Jewish; panicky Gauleiter and Kreis-leiter are sheltered in hospitals; a satisfactory "antifascist" working man is thrust into jail ("Wouldn't you like another blanket, Herr Freitag? Two more perhaps?") in the hope that...
...land for $22,500, sold it all within 30 days to the state for $101,000. Furthermore, Brotherhood Vice President O. William Blaier, 69, bought 33 acres of land for $16,500, sold 1½ acres to the state for $19,000. In Frank Chapman's bank account were found such items of payment as $15,500 to Carpenter Boss Hutcheson, $26,968 to Chapman himself. $25,432 to Blaier, and similar amounts to two Indiana road officials (who are already under indictment for conspiracy to defraud and embezzle...
...assassination "plot," as both sides told it, was an old-fashioned Levantine conspiracy complicated by 20th century gadgetry. According to the Jordan account, a Jordanian sergeant was approached by the Egyptian and offered money to do a killing. The soldier loyally disclosed the plot to the chief of staff of the Jordan army, who told him to pretend to go along with the attache, but to take a miniature recording machine with him. At the soldier's next meeting at the Egyptian embassy, the attache grabbed the sergeant, took the recorder and his service revolver from him. (This proved...