Word: chats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business. C. & C. give slick and witty readings to a selection of retreads -On a Slow Boat to China, You Came a Long Way from St. Louis-and introduce a punchy, potential hit named Calcutta. One of the most intriguing vocal entertainments since Noel Coward had his famous chat with Mary Martin...
...report, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory two weeks ago took advantage of a routine Paris meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to discuss some highly private business with West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and French Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. The fruits of that chat were harvested late last week, when the British treasury laconically announced that it had decided to make the pound sterling "externally convertible...
...Soldier. At the somber, grey-walled Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, the Republican Guards now wear dress uniform (white gloves, red epaulets) every day, and treat visitors with a new formality. Senior government officials no longer wander in whenever they feel like an informal chat, nor do they ring up the Premier on a direct line. De Gaulle, who regards the telephone as an intolerable impediment to concentration, has had the only one in his office disconnected...
Fiery Diva Maria Callas, her flames fairly well banked, rested in Milan before filming some jovial chit-chat for CBS Pundit Ed Murrow's TV talkathon, Small World. Meanwhile, back at her lawyers' office, things were less restful. Already soprano non grata at Milan's La Scala and Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, litigious Maria tossed a damage suit against another offending management: the Rome Opera House, which sacked her a year ago (TIME, Jan. 20, 1958) after she walked out after the first act of Norma pleading a "lowering of the voice." With a hint that...
...family could own its home. Not general necessity but General Electric determined the site of stores and set their rents. Police, firemen, even the city librarian were G.E. employees. More and more, Richland residents began to move out to nearby Pasco and Kennewick to own their homes and chat over the fence with non-G.E. neighbors. But not everyone in Richland was inclined to make a break. In 1955 a petition for incorporation as an independent municipality lost...