Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Aug. 5 report on the price of our new pen is causing confusion at the trade level. It is correct that Paper-Mate will market a new low-priced pen, but it will retail at 98? - not 89? as you stated...
Maxwell Gluck, Ambassador-designate to Ceylon, who "brought glee to Democrats, made Republicans glower when he admitted that he could not "call off" the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (TIME, Aug. 12). Said Dulles of this incident: "Now, the question of the selection of any particular person depends primarily upon whether he has integrity of character, whether he has a sharp and quick intelligence, and whether he is genuinely devoted to the public service. We believe that out of those three qualities can be made a competent and efficient ambassador worthy to represent...
Best Hope of Peace. For four days Dulles met with Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, and his own representatives from NATO capitals (he had already talked with Canada's new Prime Minister Diefenbaker-TIME, Aug. 5). In the forefront of Dulles' thinking, as he doodled, argued and explained in the musty committee chambers of Lancaster House, was this line of reasoning: 1) no nation that keenly feels itself in danger of attack is likely to reduce its arms; 2) with modern weapons of war, foreshortening time and space...
...Aug. 2, 1940, with the Wehrmacht at the English Channel, and beleaguered Britain waiting seemingly helpless and hopeless on the other side, Germany's Minister to Portugal sent an encouraging telegram to his boss in Berlin, Foreign Minister and ex-champagne salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Duke of Windsor, Britain's ex-King Edward VIII, it said, was ready and eager to return home with his American wife to reclaim the throne of Britain for both of them. To bring this about, the message went on, there were two possibilities: either England would urge him to come back...
...Hatful of Rain. The love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the addiction of her screen husband Don Murray demonstrates compassionately how horror can stalk into a humdrum living room (TIME, Aug...