Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentine government opened a public "Display of the Wealth of the ex-President" at Perón's former official residence in Buenos Aires. On exhibit: his 16 cars and 240 motorcycles and motor-scooters, his late wife Eva's 400 dresses, 600 hats, assorted mink coats and jewelry appraised at $1,000,000. A sign on one necklace noted that it was worth a month's work by 3,500 Argentine laborers...
...panel some splendid images of human mass in roil and flow, and Cameraman William H. Clothier has almost magically cajoled California into looking like China, with the gauzy seascapes, the abstract arrangements of seines in sunlight and the ochred skies. But the blunt point of the pictute is to display John Wayne to best advantage-stripped in a bathtub, bloody at the wheel, phlegmatically stirring his bayonet around inside a Communist. As usual, he makes a more convincing display than most of Hollywood's he-men can. And when Lauren asks him why he killed a Communist soldier, surely...
...team could use a convincing victory today to bring it up for Saturday's Ivy League opener with Cornell. But even more beneficial might be a stiff fight from Tufts. Though apparently unlikely, such a display is always possible in soccer; and if the Jumbos can bring one forth today, they will do the Crimson fortunes a great service by making the booters play their best. If, on the contrary, they fold up, the only benefit to the Crimson will be to the players' own scoring records...
...exhibit, from an aqua-green Thunderbird to an automatic voting machine on which visitors registered their favorite products, easily outdazzled competition from Red China, even though its display of heavy equipment included machinery made in satellite Europe...
Time After Time. In Milwaukee, arrested for smashing a jewelry store display window and stealing five watches three weeks after serving a term for committing the same crime in 1953, David W. Griffus, 28, told police: "I thought I could succeed this time...