Word: coeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth of road-building and repairing equipment and signed up an American engineering firm to teach Laotians how to operate the machinery. But the engineers arrived to find that, without Washington's knowledge, the local ICA mission had arranged for a Bangkok company, Universal Construction Co., to handle the job. One explanation emerged in testimony last week before a House subcommittee; Edward T. McNamara, husky ICA public-works officer in Laos from 1955 to 1957, admitted receiving stock and cash amounting to more than $12,000 from Universal "for assistance rendered by me in establishment of the contract...
...Capital spending this year will be 6½% higher than in 1958, hitting an estimated $34.2 billion, according to a survey by McGraw-Hill Publishing Co...
...feels bound to support Actress Cornell, with whom he first co-starred in The Barretts of Wimpole Street in 1931. And to Actress Cornell the road is as much a magnet as when she ran a record 18,000-mile marathon of 77 cities with a repertory including Romeo and Juliet in 1933. "The road isn't what it used to be," she concedes. "You can't get private railroad cars, and there aren't any trains any more." But Cornell despises television, has never made a movie, and finds it increasingly hard to find a Broadway...
...Buckminster Fuller's latest world of geodesic domes, already tapped by architects for everything from Union Tank Car Co.'s roundhouse to theaters, factories and banks, and soon to be used for the U.S. Trade Fair in Moscow. Bucky's latest, a 407-ft.-diameter dome for the Oklahoma City Arena, has acquired five saddle-shaped canopies, will shelter 15,000 spectators. Fuller confidently predicts a day when aircraft companies will turn out dome shelters for whole cities...
Died. Alfred Nu* Steele, 57, board chairman and chief executive officer of the Pepsi-Cola Co., onetime vice president of the Coca-Cola Co., who in 1955 became the fourth husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...