Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though logistics were so complex that press cards for the New York visit had to be issued in red, blue and green for different functions, the arrangements for coverage ran surprisingly smoothly. Reporters twitted each other about drawing for places in a pool of "pantry peepers" who peeked at the royal dinner in Ottawa's Government House. But for the first time in Canada a reigning British monarch held a reception for the press, and when Elizabeth and Philip held another in Washington, British newsmen skulking unhappily in the corners wondered whether it could ever happen in London...
...that got adjusted to me." From here on, she bounces all over the Freudian landscape, sometimes backed by a hot sax (Repressed Hostility Blues), sometimes by a relaxed trumpet (Real Sick Sounds). In a childhood memoir called The Guilty . Rag, she combines a brassy red-hot mamma complex with a mocking, rocking bit of father asphyxiation...
Stripped of its complex algebraic formulas, Parkinson's Law is this: the staff of any administrative department increases annually by 5%-6% "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done." Not one to proclaim dogma without data, Author Parkinson presents the strange case of the British Admiralty. Between 1914 and 1928, the capital ships of the British navy declined from 62 to 20, the officers and men of the fleet dropped from 146,000 to 100,000, yet Admiralty officials increased nearly 80% from 2,000 to 3,569. So absolute...
Syria's own persecution complex has been heightened in intensity by continuing American statements on the immorality of neutralism. The Syrians hear our diplomats say that if a country is not with us, it is against us, and the Syrians believe what they hear...
RUHR STEELMEN will make their first big investment in Western Hemisphere ore resources. Group of 13 ore-short West German steel firms, including Krupp complex, will open negotiations this month with Canadian Javelin Ltd., which has huge iron and timber reserves in North. If deal goes through, Germans will put as much as $45 million into new 6,000,000-ton-a-year ore processing plant in southern Labrador...