Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grushenka." After the party, Maria happened to meet Actor Brynner in the lobby of her hotel. He took one startled look and got on the phone to Director Brooks. "I just saw Grushenka." "O.K., O.K.," said Brooks. "You just saw Grushenka. Everybody just saw Grushenka. But can she act?" A quick look at Gervaise settled that. Brooks arranged a lunch at MGM. They gave her the script to read. "I could hardly breathe," Maria recalls; but the next day she had breath enough to harangue Brooks and Brynner "like a Prussian drill sergeant" about why she should have the part...
...them to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe-currently U.S. General Lauris Norstad. SACEUR can then pass the missiles on to any NATO country that i) wants them, and 2) in his opinion, has strategic need of them. Custody of the warheads will remain in the hands of SACEUR acting solely in his capacity as a U.S. officer. Thus no significant modification of the McMahon Act (which makes it illegal to put U.S. nuclear weapons in the hands of non-U.S. forces, or to share atomic military secrets with others) will be necessary, and the U.S. Government does not propose...
...promises that the Eisenhower Administration will press for congressional renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Act...
...voting was for urban councilors to act as "advisers" to the Belgian authorities. All males, white or black, over 25 years of age were eligible to vote. The Belgian aim is to create a "partnership" between the two races, setting them out to travel on parallel courses, but with the whites significantly senior. Thus, under the new "cities statute," Leopoldville is divided into three European communes for its population of 30,000 whites, and eight jampacked African communes for its 350,000 blacks. White and Negro mayors will be selected from the elected councilors by veteran (six years) Governor General...
...effort pays off handsomely for the employer. Most former alcoholics are so grateful for the help they receive that they become standout workers on returning to the job. Often they form counseling groups or act as personal missionaries to other company problem drinkers. Allis-Chalmers has cut its firing rate for alcoholics from 95% to 8% since it started its program in 1946, in the same time has cut its absentee rate among the treated from 8% to 3%-lower than the plant average. Considering such savings in production hours-and the fact that company programs for the problem drinker...