Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high finance and high office. Through the Fairmont Hotel's marble-pillared lobby trooped old-line cartel capitalists and socialist bureaucrats, Japanese financial shoguns and silk-clad Burmese magnates. From London came financiers whose firms had bankrolled the Industrial Revolution; from Berlin, the brisk businessmen who have built Europe's sturdiest economy from the rubble of war. Fiat's Managing Director Vittorio Valleta flew in from Turin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany from Washington, Banker G. D. Birla from India. Biggest delegation was a 202-man phalanx of U.S. executives spanning the economy from Ritz...
Curtsies & Quips. The Queen of Canada arrived in Ottawa on a brisk, clear afternoon, flown from London in 13½ hours. Smiling, more poised than during her 1951 visit as a princess, she stepped down the ramp, followed by her bareheaded husband Philip (see FOREIGN NEWS). She accepted greetings from Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Diefenbaker, and a curtsy from Mrs. Diefenbaker. A Plexiglas-topped convertible whisked the royal couple to Rideau Hall, official residence of Governors General, where that night Elizabeth and Philip received 600 newsmen and their wives. To one of his visitors Philip gave...
Whether the page would live up to its encouraging prospectus was for time to tell, but it got off to a brisk, bright start. Sharpened and punctuated with illustrations. Herald Tribune editorials subpoenaed the ghost of Joe McCarthy for a satiric soliloquy, thrice peppered Jimmy ("Public Enemy No. 1") Hoffa, cudgeled Yugoslavia's Tito and the New York City board of education, ranged more or less merrily from the World Series to San Marino to Jayne Mansfield's bedipitus. Other dewatermelonization steps: ¶ reprint of a radio essay by CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid reflecting on the recent...
...BRISK, somber-eyed little (5 ft. 1 in., 140 Ibs.) Ronald Davies, North Dakota lawyer, took his oath as a U.S. District Judge in Fargo on Aug. 16, 1955, then turned to well-wishers with one of the shortest induction speeches on record: "I hope that I will have the courage to meet and discharge the responsibilities of my office." Last week, plucked 870 miles from Fargo and set down in Little Rock by the impersonal workings of justice, Ronald Davies fulfilled his hopes...
...scroll for his work on the civil rights bill). Openly tapping the well of conservatism in California, he continued to call for restrictive labor legislation. Did he think he was driving California Republicanism to suicide to further his own ambitions? Why, said Bill Knowland with his frozen grin, a brisk primary might inject new life into the California G.O.P...