Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order. He continued to press for the wage increases that brought average U.M.W. pay from $6 a day in 1920 to $11.75 after the war to $24.25 today. He fought for, got, and managed with integrity a $150-million-a-year health-and-welfare fund, went to bat on Capitol Hill for important mine-safety legislation...
...Happiest Christmas Tree (Nat King Cole; Capitol). Singer Cole, it appears, is "the happiest Christmas tree! Ho, ho, ho, hee, hee, hee, hee.'' That laugh alone could kick him to the top of the pop charts...
...Happy Reindeer (Capitol). Another of the tape-doctored disks, this one featuring the nasalized singing of "Dancer, Prancer and Nervous" in a message of blue-eyed innocence: "We are Santa's reindeers/ We've learned to sing this year/ So we can tell everyone/ Christmas day is near...
...Britain's Parliament the Economist is read and followed so widely that it is sometimes called "the alternative government." In the U.S. it is quoted more often in the press than any other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...
Allen Drury is a thin-haired reporter who spent 16 competent years on the Capitol Hill beat for United Press, the Washington Evening Star and the New York Times before he unburdened himself of a book. Otto Preminger is a bagel-bald producer-director who has a reputation for outbidding everyone for film rights to bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury...