Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Link Theory. "The trouble," reported TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, "is that the Geneva Summit meeting killed the fear on which NATO was built." At ceremonies outside Paris last week marking NATO's seventh anniversary, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther put an optimistic face on things, and tried to get abreast of the new trend. As if acknowledging some force to Mollet's charges of exaggerated preoccupation with military matters, Gruenther said: "Because NATO has so grown in stature and in military strength . . . NATO can now move with greater strength into other [social and economic] fields. We at SHAPE...
With summer on the way, Good Humor Co. of Calif, reported that it cannot find enough drivers to man its bell-ringing trucks. The report, and dozens like it, led economists for Manhattan's austere First National City Bank to an interesting speculation: "If we had figures on unfilled job requisitions, it is possible that they would show that there are more unfilled jobs than persons unemployed." And that, points out National City, "is a condition of 'overemployment...
Talk to Me Like The Rain is a subtler, more lyrical play, but less effective, partially because there is no really dramatic clash of wills. A man (D.J. Sullivan), who is tired of being "pased around like a dirty postcard," comes home to his woman (Louise Bell), who is sick of waiting for him. They soliloquize, and go to bed. Given such a soporific plot, Sullivan, through some pretty astute nuzzling, still manages to keep the play on its feet. While Miss Bell is supposed to be delicate, she seems just a little too erect and graceful for the role...
...Bell. Last week, after almost two months in prison, Danilo Dolci was dragged, in chains, into the large hall of Palermo's Lo Steri to stand trial for his illicit road-repairing...
...courtroom was shabby and ill-equipped. There were no proper gowns available for the lawyers, and when the visiting judge went to reach for the bell to call for order, he found none. "In the north," he said, "lawyers have gowns, and judges have bells. Here we have poverty." Then he turned to the man who had tried to alleviate some of that poverty...