Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose appearance as an unknown schoolgirl on Jack Paar's Tonight TV show in October developed a bolognoid scent when someone remembered that she had sung a year and a half ago with an outfit called the Dream Weavers. While Paar clutched his wounds. Trish grabbed a recording contract with Decca. She might hit the big time, with the help of a cute nickname (short for Patricia), a fine nose for publicity and a sentimental, "There's-a-tree-in-the-meadow" kind of voice. Her first record, Far Away, a sugary lament for vagrant love, is sure...
...they cannot pay the bill. One wife, in order to buy a washing machine which would enable her to take in laundry, needed $50 in advance. Four Harvard undergraduates agreed to advance her the money on the condition that she clean their dirty linen for the entire year. A contract was signed...
...were "a bit terrifying." The son of Russian-born parents, he followed a path after Indianapolis that is familiar to many another promising young U.S. soloist: special award in the Rachmaninoff Fund's nationwide piano contest, guest appearances with half a dozen U.S. symphonies, an RCA Victor recording contract. In the in-between years, when the glamour of being a teen-age virtuoso wore off, he dropped almost from sight on the community concert circuit. By preference he steered away from the showy, romantic pieces ("I was an egghead about what I played"). A year ago he went...
...order ended a heated race among the nation's major planemakers to bring forth a suitable medium-range jet for United. Boeing nabbed the contract by carefully studying requirements of United and other air carriers, and by revamping its unpopular 717 medium-range jet into an improved, 600-m.p.h. model. The four-engine 720, whose existence was revealed only a few days before United announced its order, puts Boeing on the inside track in the brisk competition for further medium-range jet orders. It will carry 100 to 125 passengers (v. 120 to 150 for the larger...
Ever since the Government accused General Motors last July of making $17.4 million in excess profits on a contract to build 599 F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters (TIME, Aug. 5), G.M. has jittered at the prospect of a court case and possible bad publicity. Last week Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, whose House Armed Services Subcommittee had brought out the original charge, announced that G.M. has moved to settle with the Government. It offered to refund a total of $9,701,458 to the Air Force. Already in the hands of the Air Force is a check...