Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mikoyan last week returned to the nation's capital. His trip had been a smashing success-from his viewpoint. For behind him Anastas Mikoyan left scores of well-meaning Americans who, failing to realize that he had not backed up an inch on any basic Kremlin position (see box), had mistaken his warm smile as tokening a real thaw in the cold...
...larded its stories so lavishly with sarcasm ("The Deputy Premier showed a capitalistic-type interest in Macy's varied wares-and didn't steal a thing") that the reader was invited only to sympathize with the victim. The Chicago American vented its spleen in a front-page box: "Everyone is asking, 'Who sent for him?' " For the most part, the press attempted to balance its Mikoyan account with sound editorials and sharp cartoons. But even on the editorial pages, there were some solos of Mikoyan praise. "If all Soviet officials were always as amiable as Mikoyan...
...report on its all-out attack on phony price cutting. In the three months since FTC started the campaign with a warning to merchants to stop marking up goods in order to make fake price cuts seem to be bargains, 60 companies have learned their lesson the hard way. Box score: 33 complaints, 21 orders to cease and desist, and six consent agreements. Most of the actions (32) were against furriers, long among the most obvious of the price packers, but the campaign also extended to sellers of sewing machines, perfumes, women's hosiery, cutlery, paints, bedspreads, even dolls...
...billed as "Mrs. Bing Crosby"). Unfortunately, the audience will not get much of a look at the young celebrity. When the magician gets through with her, she is only 3½ in. tall, and after that she spends most of her time shut up in a tiny, jewel-studded box...
...lease the land to MeBAC and to construct foundations for a theatre (an expenditure of some $200,000). This theatre, as well as a projected center for visual arts and opera house, would then be run by MeBAC and the original debt to the Commonwealth paid off, hopefully, by box office receipts...