Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edwin Hill ("Ted") Patrick, 62, editor of Holiday since 1946; of hepatitis; in Manhattan. Boulevardier Patrick, a onetime adman, took on Curtis' anemic travel magazine when it was four months old, made it into a glossy, coffee-table Baedeker, chronicling top-chop restaurants, countries on and off the tourist track, rich people and bizarre events, hired prestige contributors, boosted circulation (at 600 a copy) to 1,000,000 the day before he died, making it Curtis' only adult magazine in recent years to stay in the black...
Senior's sister had taught him one way to explode a haunting melody. Sing "Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb, little lamb, Mary had a little lamb CHOP...
...right then: Mary had a little lamb-chop. He tries it. No go. What a way to get rid of, to get rid of--She was just Seventeen...
Surprisingly, though, the story seldom lags, mainly because some first-chop talents go at it as if the idea were spanking-new. Director René Clèment (Forbidden Games) mounts several taut scenes, especially one in which passengers aboard a crowded train seize a Gestapo agent and fling him onto the rails. Fortunately, too, the dialogue by Novelist Roger Vailland neatly sidesteps heroics. "The war doesn't interest me," drawls Signoret, whose husband is safely lodged in a P.W. camp...
...international scale, the Iron Curtain countries have learned at least one time-honored tactic of capitalistic competition: a surefire way to win business is to chop prices below those of your competitors. For more than a year, West European shipping lines have watched helplessly as East-bloc ships captured a growing share of European cargoes by underbidding established rates by as much...