Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Girls & Hardware. The day after Khrushchev's speech came the public climax of the anniversary gala-the four-hour parade through Red Square during which the Soviet armed forces traditionally show off their new weapons. This year, after Khrushchev's talk of intercontinental missiles and the persistent rumor that the Russians had sent up a rocket timed to hit the moon Nov. 7, the parade was an anticlimax. Though Rome's Communist daily L'Unità had confidently predicted that the day would be fine, because "Soviet experts are capable of creating good weather," the Moscow...
BASIC-METALS SLUMP will cause American Metal Co., Ltd., one of the biggest international producers of lead, zinc, silver and copper, to merge with fast-growing Climax Molybdenum Co. American will swap $141.3 million worth of stock for Climax, merge it into new company called American Metal Climax, Inc. American Metal's nine-month earnings slipped to $8,579,062 from last year's $14,869,617, but Climax's net for same period rose to $11,443,953 from...
After such a publication, the game was an anti-climax. Princeton once more defeated Harvard and sent three of its best players to the hospital. The Crimson fans, egged on by the issue, did their best to throw bottles and generate a "glorious free-for-all" but in general it was an average football game...
...busy for casual gallery browsing, Niarchos relies on auction catalogues, a network of watchful employees and the tips (as well as enthusiasms) of his well-heeled collector friends. His behind-the-scenes maneuvering reached a climax when he bought the Robinsons' collection without seeing anything more than a catalogue (though his handsome Greek wife Eugenie, who often drops in at galleries, did fly to Los Angeles under an assumed name for a firsthand look...
...angriest running battle for control of a major U.S. movie company reached a climax last week. At a special stockholders' meeting, the management of Hollywood's infirm old lion, Loew's Inc., owners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, outvoted the forces of Millionaire Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's biggest (5%) and unhappiest stockholder. By 3,449,446 ballots to 519,435, shareholders gave President Joseph R. Vogel a solid grip on his board of directors by increasing its membership from 13 to 19. Then they voted in nine management nominees to fill ten empty seats...