Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoplifters' gimmicks. National Food trains clerks and checkers by film slides and lecture tapes ("An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of apprehension"), and most chains have beefed up their security forces. Checkers learn catcherlike signals (e.g., can tossed from hand to hand is S O S call). One-way mirrors, secret peepholes and closed-circuit TV help spot the heisters, but eat up the labor savings of self-service merchandising. Nor is a shoplifter spotted necessarily a shoplifter stopped. Grocers run the risk of being sued for false arrest if they cannot find stolen merchandise. More unsettling...
...their christening gifts were frostily returned by messenger. What's more, by a 1951 friendship treaty with France, Monaco could, and did, invoke its right to bar the Dockers from the entire Riviera. Returning to London, Lady Docker huffed that she was "at war" with Rainier-"I call it the Kremlin down there." Added Sir Bernard: "We are not going back to that dreary little country. What is Monaco but a Coney Island for the winter, a tin-soldier outfit...
...packed off to a Pasadena sanitarium. In 1956 he managed to last 18 weeks on a Los Angeles KNXT show, Words About Music, then got a reprimand for making anti-Nixon quips and quit in disgust. Last February, after more than a year in four sanitariums, he got a call from KCOP (co-owned by Bing Crosby), was offered a temporary job filling in for ailing Jokester Tom Duggan. Ten days later Levant had a show...
Sick-Sick. Never before has KCOP had so much mail. Some call it the "sick-sick show," but most rejoice at "rediscovering" Oscar, the dictionary, and good books as well. Says Huxley: "He represents intelligence-something all of us can use more...
Last year Freeport offered to cut the price to $1.24 if the Government would sign an irrevocable contract to buy at least two-thirds of its Nicaro ore needs from Freeport through 1978. General Services Administrator Franklin Floete turned down the offer, called on Lawyer Ira D. Beynon, 62, to clean up the Nicaro dispute. Beynon attacked the chore with vigor. Testified Freeport Sulphur's President Langbourne Williams: "Mr. Beynon began to call us names, to threaten us with congressional investigations. He said, 'You reduce [the ore price] or I'll shut this plant down...