Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FICTION 1 . Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak ( 1 )* 2. Exodus, Uris (3) 3.Lolita, Nabokov (2) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Lady L., Gary (7) 7. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 9. The Watch That Ends the Night MacLennan 10. Tenderloin, Adams...
...Robert W. Kerr, 55, vice president of American Machine & Foundry, moved to Penn-Texas as vice president and boss of all its subsidiaries, including Fairbanks, Morse and Toolmaker Pratt & Whitney. Colorado-born Bob Kerr graduated from U.C.L.A. ('27), spent his early years as a reporter on the Los Angeles Examiner, went into the tool industry in 1938, became president of Toledo's Bingham-Herbrand Corp. before moving to American Machine & Foundry. Kerr and President Alfons Landa hope to disassociate Penn-Texas from the poor publicity brought on by the fight to oust Former Chairman Leopold Silberstein by changing...
...closest neighbor is a rich and really quiet American. Joe Bellman, who looks like "Edward Gibbon, parboiled," has not opened a book in 20 years, simply lolls in the sea and sun, and only worries how his next meal is coming, culinarily speaking. When the doctored fruit reaches grapefruit-size, Gourmet Joe poaches a fig. "This is how things tasted to Adam," he tells his maid delightedly, "before Eve introduced him to ignobler pleasures and spoiled his palate for ever more...
Emphasizing that "we are not in our present position by accident," Kissinger proceeded to examine the characteristics of American foreign policy. He insisted that the United States places its hopes in diplomats who can "invent clever solutions to solve crises...
...also attacked "the American feeling that we must propose compromises in any negotiations." He pointed out, "we are always mystified when the Soviets react haughtily to our proposals; we do not understand that they are not satisfied with normalcy and that they often see our proposals as signs of weakness...