Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Washington this week two grimly determined men set out for Europe bent on keeping friends-but saving U.S. gold and dollars. To strengthen their sales pitch, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon had a potent new persuader: the seeds of a "Buy American" policy in the cuts in U.S. spending abroad decreed last week by Dwight Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But it was unlikely that the travelers would be obliged to brandish this weapon. Unable to blink any longer the sobering fall in U.S. gold reserves, U.S. allies around the world had at last...
Spartacus. Hollywood has taken the old formula of brawn (Kirk Douglas championing Rome's oppressed) and sex (Jean Simmons swimming in the nude) and added both heart and brain to this massive epic. Thanks to the sharp eye of Director Stanley Kubrick, the literary bent of Scenarist Dalton Trumbo and good performances by Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov, Spartacus adds up to an impressive piece of moviemaking despite its obeisance to commercialism...
Built to withstand the ages, the Bent St. yards had the only facilities for intensive maintenance and repairs on the entire system. However, recent developments indicate that the MTA may have another yard which could handle Bennett St. traffic...
...President is only occasionally conscious of the press, the White House regulars are day and night as conscious of Ike as of a close member of their family. His health, in fact, is one of their primary concerns. His travels are the anvil on which their personal lives are bent and twisted. They learn to remember key dates in his life better than he does. Except for Richard Nixon's kitchen debate with Khrushchev and the tremendously moving Warsaw crowd that greeted Nixon, all of my most vivid Washington bureau memories, I realized, were associated with Eisenhower...
Contacted by phone last night, the elder Grueninger said the Medical Center originally diagnosed his son's case as ordinary pneumonia and sent him home. his son returned to the Center one or two days later," according to Mr. Grueninger, he was admitted to the Bent Brigham Hospital, and the diagnosis was changed to staphylococcus...