Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stringing Along. In Riva Trigoso, Italy, Giacomino Bianchini won a silver fork for eating 1.1 Ibs. of spaghetti in 34 minutes with his hands tied behind his back...
Yamasaki took advantage of a long convalescence to go to Japan. He was captivated by what he saw in its architecture: the interplay of light and shadow, the union of building and garden. He came back to cast a jaundiced eye on the serried ranks of glass boxes rising along the main streets of Manhattan and other major cities. "Our life gives promise of being spent in look-alike houses, look-alike automobiles and look-alike buildings," he warned his fellow architects...
...toward buying shares in capitalism changed that even the Laborite Daily Herald in its financial column now urges mutual funds as a good place to put working-class savings. The Tories are delighted, well realizing the obstacles that such investment is creating for nationalization if the Labor Party gets back into power...
...Hurleigh (now Mutual president) went on a press junket to Ciudad Trujillo last May, was confronted with the deal by a Trujillo aide. Shocked and angry, Mutual went to the Justice Department. Trujillo's lawyer also went to the Justice Department after he failed to get the money back from Guterma, turned over the alleged contract with Trujillo...
...sweeping rearrangement of top management last week, General Motors Corp. moved farther away from focusing power in the hands of one man, as it had under Harlow Curtice (1953-58), and back to the broader-based management policies followed by Charles E. Wilson (1946-53). Into the No. 3 slot, under