Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your July 13 account of the Warren-Mazo explosion and Warren's 1957 petty blackballing of Nixon, I can only say there must be many today whose faith in Chief Justice Warren's considered judgment is now a thing of the past. That such a man is our Chief Justice must make "the lady in the harbor" wince...
...third offering of the season The Boston Summer Playhouse is presenting a pleasant, if not exceptional production of Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter. This amusing account of the hills and valleys of married life is really a delightful and tightly written little play. The plot covers thirty-five years of marriage, including the embarrassment of the wedding night, the birth of the first child, the problems with the teenage children, the "other woman," and finally the mellow maturity of middle...
Down to Cents. The changing liberal of 1959 is already distinguishable from his New Deal daddy by the fact that he is not a big spender. He keeps a careful dollars-and-cents account of his own appropriations record to show the folks at home, and casts a watchful eye on the legislative expense accounts of other liberals, lest he be typed as a too-big spender. He also worries about job security (says Brademas: "It's a matter of survival. We want to stay around. We aren't here just for an experiment"). Some bubbles...
...Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology and integrated lust, but when police found a copy beside a murder victim and saw that the book was opened to the account of a similar crime, the Ministry of the Interior banned the book as objectionable "foreign" literature...
...open-hearth process. Kaiser Steel (which holds the U.S. rights to the patent for the process), Jones & Laughlin, McLouth Steel and Acme Steel have installed direct-oxygen furnaces. U.S. Steel and all other major companies are studying the process. Steel experts predict that by 1965 it will account for 35% of world steel capacity, 25% of U.S. steel capacity. Meantime, the industry is adopting the use of oxygen in its open-hearth furnaces, which account for more than 85% of U.S. steel capacity, and is boosting steel-production rates from 10% to 20% for dozens of firms...