Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unseemly family squabble (TIME, March 24). Elsa Maxwell appeared for weekly off-with-their-heads chats, chopped at so many well-known necks (including Winchell's, Presley's, Princess Grace's) that Jack was only half kidding when he rolled his eyes and groaned: "Call the lawyers." For a few frenetic nights, Zsa Zsa Gabor leaned over her cleavage and rattled her host into some now famous fluffs. "It will cut him!" she squealed, in the middle of his Norelco razor pitch. "It won't cut anything!" roared Jack, who could have happily...
...call from an NBC attorney informs Jack that as a bonus for signing his new contract (which runs for two more years), he gets six weeks of vacation with pay. Now his salary comes to $2,750 a week, plus a percentage of the income from commercials, but he has no time for pleasure. "I don't know what in hell we're going to do tonight," he moans...
...score in a Brussels-bound diplomatic pouch. In Brussels itself, one especially vital consignment arrived at the airport with such urgency that suspicious customs men detained the package. A Ballet Theatre official warned hoarsely: "If we don't get those athletic supporters soon, I'm going to call the American ambassador...
...decided that ayurvedic and Western medicine would not mix. Conclusion: the students would have to drop their Western studies. With that, two ayurveda students began hunger strikes. Responding to this form of protest, made classical for Indians by the example of Gandhi, Lucknow University students heeded the ayurvedics' call for a citywide general strike, got into last week's riots...
Though Wall Streeters are uneasy about the swiftness of the rise, few expect a substantial selloff. Earnings and dividends are now more secure* than they were a few months ago, and many institutions are waiting for a dip to buy. What Wall Streeters call the "350 Club"-the bears who saw the industrials declining to that level last winter-has been dissolved; it has been reorganized as the "450 Club." But these analysts could be wrong again. "There are hundreds of professional investors and institutions who go down on their knees at night, praying that the market will return...