Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know General de Gaulle," snapped a French government official, "if you think he is going to stand idly by and let Russia and the U.S. settle everything." In Britain, the Economist surprisingly took the opposite tack. Ignoring the usual British argument that the West would be lost without the benefit of Britain's deeper diplomatic savvy, the Economist saw an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting as "an alternative to the summit," iaatly declared: "The job can be done better in Washington than anywhere else...
...stand for the principle of separation of church and state as a principle to be applied for the benefit of all churches and all creeds...
...role in last week's production, again stumbles and stutters through a performance. Mr. Kennedy should be informed that nothing makes an audience more uneasy than an actor fumbling for his lines. It reeks of incompetence or laziness. The remainder of the cast, distributed among the lesser roles, would benefit from several more courses in voice and movement...
...film version of Daphne DuMaurier's novel The Scapegoat. This affords the star another opportunity to undertake more than one role. But whereas he portrayed an octet of completely different characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets, his task here is in some ways much more difficult: Guinness, without benefit of contrasting makeup or costume, has to portray two men visually identical and sometimes conversing with each other--a British college French teacher on vacation in France, and a French count. The latter tricks the former into taking his place for three weeks as a "scapegoat." The problem is that, inside...
...President David J. McDonald last week presented union demands to the aluminum industry, whose contracts lapse July 31. Dave McDonald wants the same windfall for his 32,000 aluminum members as for his 500,000 steel-industry members: a three-year contract with a 15? hourly wage-and-benefit boost every year, plus cost-of-living hikes. The U.S. aluminum industry is softer than steel; if management accedes to a neat compromise package-perhaps iof an hour-it might speed a settlement in steel. If not, the aluminum workers may soon join the Steelworkers on the picket line...