Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parted back in early 1958, but it took a while for traffic through the slit to build up. In January 1958, after nearly three years of on-and-off negotiations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed an elaborate cultural-exchange agreement. A few days later, to get the new era off to a brisk start, Moscow sent Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington to replace dour Georgy Zarubin as ambassador. During 1958 the U.S. sent to the U.S.S.R. 82 separate exchange projects with 953 members-scientists, engineers, artists, entertainers, businessmen, farmers, athletes-and the U.S.S.R. sent...
...York Coliseum this summer with "a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation." While the ambassador was making his pitch for fair play-which he would have got from the bulk of U.S. journalists without asking-the Soviet press was whipping up its severest attack since the Stalin era on life in the U.S. The new campaign was obviously the Soviet welcome to the six-week, $5,000,000 American National Exhibition that will open in Moscow on July...
...ages. Her elders admired her art; her pre-World War I contemporaries copied her manner of speech, the way she walked, even the proud tilt of her head.. She belonged not to Broadway or to Hollywood, but to the country. For Ethel Barrymore became a star in an era when no star stayed put. A few months in Manhattan were always followed by tours to other cities-and all were equally important...
...Era. Spurring the industry's hopes is the rising level of U.S. consumer spending. Department-store sales in the week ending June 13 were 3% over last year, despite a sales-crippling newspaper strike in St. Louis. Fairchild News Service's own survey, covering specialty shops as well as department stores, showed a sales jump of 4% over the preceding week, the tenth such weekly rise. Another big reason for confidence is that manufacturers this year took pains to study their market. Many sent their designers on nationwide tours to sound out stores and shoppers on the kind...
Sondheim, one of the industry's leaders, all this means that the U.S. is on the verge of a new era of luxury and individuality in clothing, in which shoppers at every price level prefer one good article to two shoddy ones. Taking dead aim at achieving an "opulent look," Sondheim and other manufacturers have gone in heavily for velvet, lace, brocade and other elegant fabrics in evening and cocktail dresses, have used fur trim lavishly. The dressier clothes cost more, promising retailers both higher unit and dollar volume. Fur Pants. Another place where the luxury look shows...