Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lima's Avenida Arequipa, crusted the city's statues, napped from every wall. Neon lights blinked political slogans, and the bellow of the sound truck was heard in the land. In Peru this week, the eight-year rule of a military strongman was coming to a surprising climax in a wide-open presidential election...
...went-and his evenings were invariably full-the action was brisk. One party he attended was held on a yacht and ended only when sea scouts and river police turned up to fish two debonair young Guards officers out of the muddy waters of the Thames. Another reached its climax when some of the duke's young friends decided to scale a perilous parapet and sprinkle innocent passers-by in the street below with champagne...
...Riding Skirt. Mary Costa, another blonde who earns $52,000 a year peddling cars for Chrysler on Climax and Shower of Stars, agrees that a girl spieler should be "good-looking but not too flashy to detract from the product. I try to dress elegantly but simply." Mary's feminine viewers notice her enough to wonder how she can get so gracefully into and out of today's cars. "They write asking why my skirt never rides up. It's a simple matter of placing more weight on the calves than on the thighs, as women usually...
...turning up tipsy one evening in 1910, the managing editor drafted his new secretary to put out the financial page. For the 22-year-old secretary, Arthur J. Trebilcock, the business editor's last lapse marked the first lap in a long financial career that reached its climax last week. After 20 years of running the Toronto Stock Exchange as executive manager, onetime Newsman Trebilcock, 67, became its first full-time paid president...
...Coach Jack Barnaby lit up his last Chesterfield, Place and Ben Heckscher finished up a 10-8, 7-5 victory over Ralph Stuart and Perry Ruddick, leaving the first doubles' three-set win a definite anti-climax...