Word: client
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accuses him of looting and terrorizing the country. The State Department said that it had "conferred" with the Immigration Service on the expulsion order and agreed that it "is in accord with the best interests of the U.S." Perez Jimenez' Miami lawyer predicted that he could keep his client in the U.S. "for at least two or three years" before all legal devices are exhausted...
...blame. The puzzles were ripe for fixing, and in some cases newspapers, e.g., the Milwaukee Sentinel, ignored tips that the fix was on. And neither of the two syndicates-General Features and Superior Features-that sold services to the phony paper in Ontario bothered to check the client's false credentials...
...lead safaris are making more money than ever-$7,000 a year is average and $14,000 is not uncommon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an alltime high too. Today no high-class safari leaves Nairobi without comforts that range from a special scout car for the client and his white hunter to five-ton trucks that haul the amenities of gracious living-tents, radios, refrigerators, portable showers and toilets...
Ruark's Regrets. For the old-line purist who wants to do his shooting .450 cal. instead of 16 mm., the tab goes high. Average cost for a single client is $105 a day, plus air fare to and from Nairobi. Licenses in Kenya for a full bag of Africa's big five sporting animals (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros) come to another $600. If he brings his own firearms, a hunter may be able to get away with 30 days in the bush for $4,000. With photographic safaris pushing into the wilds, most Nairobi white hunters...
Echoing the life and times of the nation, the ring of the telephone resounds through U.S. literature, theater, movies. It evokes laughs (Bells Are Ringing) from the plight of an answering-service operator who falls in love with a client, horror (Dial "M" for Murder) from a homicidal husband's attempt to lure his wife into an assassin's hands with a telephone ring, frustration (Menotti's The Telephone) from the dilemma of a lover whose girl constantly interrupts his proposal to answer the phone-until he rushes to a phone booth to propose...