Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the organized stoning of the U.S.'s William Rountree in Baghdad (see box), the Communist hierarchy in the Middle East met in Damascus, capital of Nasser's northern province of Syria. Arab Communists have become increasingly open in their defiance of Nasser. But they took a prudent step: they divided their Syrian and Lebanese apparatus, so that if either is broken up, the other will survive. The general party line laid down in Damascus last week is understood to have been decided at a conference in Tirana, Albania last October. It is to exploit their opportunity...
...years playing in somber epics, including Mourning Becomes Electra. TV and a few other acting bits kept Tammy going until 1954, when she met and later married Canada-born Actor Christopher Plummer, now starring in Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. At the time, Tammy was working in the box office at the Westport (Conn.) Playhouse. "They fired me," she says, "because I lost them $500 giving away free passes." (The habit still afflicts her. At the Downstairs she is apt to answer the telephone outside her dressing room with a cheery "Yes, of course. Six for New Year...
...trademarks were registered in 1958 was one measure of industry's drive to innovate. Westinghouse is testing an ultrasonic dishwasher that knocks off dirt with sound waves, an electronic hostess cart that can be wheeled to any part of the house, a refrigerating system to make the old box obsolete by providing separate drawers for meat, dairy products, vegetables, each with its own temperature adjustment...
Although caught with their critics grounded, none of the plays seemed bogged in worry. Advance sales for the prestige-laden Old Vic totaled more than $200,000, and whispers of the raves for J.B. spread rapidly. Before the box office opened on the morning after, a shivering line of 200 waited for tickets...
...start is only vaguely persuasive. The activities may never get started till I'm a five year alumnus." "Really, activities don't mean a thing, it was the icebox that convinced me and the elevator; this kind of thing you can't pass up." (Strangely enough, the "ice-box set" seems rather small, though active...