Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These sound practices are as well known abroad as they are in Washington. With a budget in balance, the U.S., says British Economist Graham Hutton. must take normal corrective measures to get its balance of payments in order. Button's prescription is for the U.S. to reduce foreign commitments, get overseas allies to carry more of the load, get internal costs under control. "If you don't stabilize your wage costs," says he, "you will lose export orders, lose gold and get unemployment. It is as simple as that. You have the strongest economy in the world...
...home movies, the characters on the screen mouth lost words. On the sound track Kerouac talks on, speaking for them. Visitors knock. "Button your fly and go answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink beer and wine, smoke marijuana, look out the window, where "90-year-old men are being run over by gasoline trucks." The audience now knows that Pull My Daisy is not just another she-bugs-me, she-bugs-me-not story...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). A seasonal variety program stars Walter Slezak in Ludwig Bemelmans' The Borrowed Christmas; Judith Anderson narrates the Nativity passages from St. Matthew and St. Luke; Dick Button skates; Germany's Obernkirchen Children's Choir sings Christmas carols.Color...
...button at 7:50 p.m. a Rolls-Royce discharged Sweden's King Gustav VI and Queen Louise at London's Haymarket Theatre where they were to see a performance of Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover. When there was no trace of a royal welcome, the Queen murmured: "Where are our friends and our tickets?" Gustav shrugged. It was then they learned that the play was a quarter mile away at the Globe Theatre, where an audience had begun mumbling and grumbling while the curtain was being held for the Swedes' arrival. Dashing...
Dilworth rushed into the dining hall and was just catching the last button on his vest when the Chinese gong sounded, signalling the end of the food-serving period. He cleverly managed to steal a tray as the last stack was being carried away, and hurried along the serving line gathering unto himself everything that was still available. When he reached the end, he surveyed his fortune; and finding everything but the goat's milk unfamiliar, stood frozen near the jelly table in a state of stark amazement...