Word: curtness
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...avoid was under way. So lengthy was the debate that Khrushchev and other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. The Tass account of Zhukov's arrival shrank to three lines in next morning's edition of Pravda...
Last week an oddly curt press release from Boulware's own department announced that Boulware was being replaced by Vice President Jack S. Parker, 39, manager of the jet-engine division in Evendale, Ohio. Parker came to G.E. only seven years ago, quickly took on top jobs in various divisions, but none in personnel...
...Integration Must Begin." The first straightening was done by a tiny (5 ft. i in., 140 Ibs.) U.S. district judge named Ronald Davies, who had arrived in Little Rock from Fargo, N. Dak. only nine days before to take the bench of a judge who had retired. Curt, cool Judge Davies, 52, son of a small-town North Dakota' newspaper editor, got his law at Georgetown University, and practiced in Grand Forks (pop. 32,500) until President Eisenhower appointed him to the bench in 1955. Davies took just six minutes to order the school board to go ahead with...
...theory that the steel industry is a bellwether for the economy, that if steel raises or lowers its prices steel-using industries will automatically raise or lower theirs, U.S. Steel Corp. Board Chairman Roger M. Blough had a curt reply: "Sheer economic superstition." Said Blough last week: "All the money the American people spend for steel in a year is so small, in comparison to their total expenditures for all the other things they buy, that any change in the price of steel is overwhelmed by the price movement of other goods and services which make up the average family...
...Send flowers!" is the curt advice. He sends a great florid basket full of yellow roses and thereupon becomes involved in a train of farcical events involving a Greek who follows a philosophical system called "Selectivist," "really an anti-system [containing the best points of] democratic, monarchic, ecclesiastic, Communist and fascist [societies]." Before the fun is over, the story introduces such British supporting players as a callow youth who wants to be "worldlywise like Mr. Somerset Maugham," bounding Newspaperman Wyvell Speen, and a goonlike consular official called Waldo Grimbley, who is delighted when Elaine Brent lands in jail, because...