Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered the gates thrown open to all comers. Invitations for an official lunch had been issued to 50; the palace staff had prudently prepared for 200 guests; 5,000 showed up. In an atmosphere reminiscent of Andrew Jackson's inaugural at Washington in 1829, unbidden guests pressed ten deep around Magsaysay's table, watched every mouthful as it disappeared into the presidential mouth. A half dozen strangers sat down at the First Lady's table. Still others surged around a heaped buffet which in five minutes stood bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...picture fails to achieve much originality, it is not because Terry Moore and the octopus don't try, or because Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty...
...Reserve Board's revised index of industrial production (in which the base years are 1947-49 instead of 1935-39). The new index averaged 135, up 9% from 1952 for a new peak and eight full points above the biggest year of World War II. While taxes cut deep, corporations nevertheless netted more after taxes ($20.5 billion) than in any year except 1948 and 1950, and paid out the greatest volume of dividends in history ($9.5 billion...
...desert locust, he discovered, is parthenogenetic, i.e., capable of producing offspring all by herself. In the last year, Hamilton has raised four generations of female Schistocerca in specially built hutches on the hospital roof. Regularly, his succeeding generations of females, without male help, have produced and laid their eggs deep in the sand of their hutches. All their offspring are female locusts...
...literary hit or miss. In Cress Delahanty, Jessamyn West (The Friendly Persuasion, The Witch Diggers) camps on a familiar theme, the growing pains of a lively, sometimes lonely adolescent. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for January, Cress is episodic in form, and never takes a deep enough drag on its subject to give anyone a sharp sense of reality, but as a kind of filter-tipped "Life with Daughter," it makes engaging light reading...