Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stokowski. Impresario Forest, who still clips profitable pharmaceutical coupons, thinks that in another summer or so the festival will pay its own way. Meantime, he is angling for a new audience: the passengers on incoming foreign liners, who will be briefed on the festival's offerings before the boat touches the pier...
Sammy Davis, Jr. is a slick, quicksilver Sporting Life, and his renderings of "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York" could not be topped. Pearl Bailey is on hand as Maria, and one only wishes that her part were fatter...
After the boat ride came a late lunch on a knoll overlooking the river, and then Nixon and Khrushchev settled down to serious private talks...
...white, yachtlike ship with its teardrop superstructure is largely President Eisenhower's dream boat. Following up his atoms-for-peace plan, he proposed in 1955 that an existing ship be equipped with an atomic power plant. Congress did him one better, the following year authorized an all-new nuclear vessel, turned the problem over to the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. The result is the $41 million, 22,000-ton Savannah, which, with its nuclear engine, will be capable of cruising without refueling for 350,000 miles over 3½ years...
...Most non-Catholics, says Sue, believe that in such a conflict, the individual Catholic must "blindly and stupidly" knuckle under. But that is not true, and to demonstrate it, she wanted to stay in the contest-partly because, she felt, Senator Jack Kennedy was in much the same boat as she, i.e., his presidential candidacy is being opposed by people who fear that he might have to bow down to "hierarchical authority...