Word: centurion
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...would seem from post-victory advertisements that the tea company has been running in Israeli newspapers. "The gallant fighters of the Tank Corps," explain the ads, "appreciate a good cup of tea as the most invigorating drink. That is why the designer of the famous British Centurion provided facilities for the crews to brew tea inside their tanks. A good soldier will endure every hardship, but he will not give up his glass of tea. Wissotzky Tea, of course...
...John the Baptist) plus, it would seem, any other celebrity ready to trade top billing for a chance to play holy charades. Jesus cures a cripple (Sal Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters). He bears his cross under the stern eye of Roman Centurion John Wayne. Veronica is Carroll Baker, who mops his brow, and-in a labored salute to brotherhood-he gets a helping hand from Simon of Cyrene (Sidney Poitier). Such coy vignettes add star power but not stature. They merely bolster the evidence that Western man's greatest story...
...high laving indulged in by Cleopatra Taylor and Antony Burton in Shakespeare's latest spectacular. The Crane Co. has taken the plunge with a line of sunken tubs, dubbed the Marc Antony (6 ft. long and "rich in majestic beauty"), the Caesar ("once exclusive with emperors"), and the Centurion ("a masterful tribute to the mighty Roman legions...
...acre site in Flushing Meadow looked less like a showcase last week than a sordid battlefield of machinery and men. And inside the administration building, the generalissimo of it all. Fair President Robert Moses, kept things moving like the centurion in the Gospels, who described himself as a man who says "Go. and he goeth; and to another. Come, and he cometh...
Other Detroit whispers last week: > Buick will introduce the Centurion, General Motors' long-awaited answer to Ford's Thunderbird. Slightly bigger than the Thunderbird (116-in. wheelbase v. the T-bird's 113) and probably more expensive, Centurion will feature "fastback" styling, a gentle, slightly concave curve from the roofline to the rear bumper...