Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage is like a game of musical chairs." When the gossips reported that Ray Milland was leaving his wife for Grace, mother Kelly hustled out to California to set things straight. Milland insists that he only took her to dinner once; Grace says nothing. Most recently Grace's escort has been Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, one time husband of Gene Tierney and professional man-about-ladies. The Kellys deplore all such gossip-column romances...
Medals Jangling. As Marshal Tito sailed into Bombay Harbor on the Caleb, an ex-Italian minelayer, three Indian and two Yugoslav destroyers played escort. Tito, wearing his marshal's grey uniform with medals jangling on the chest, beamed as he was buried in a garland of roses. Said he in English: "I like...
...Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into one handsome volume. Modern readers may smile at some of Cooper's dialogue, written in the days before Mark Twain cleared the air ("Manifest no distrust," says their escort to two beautiful girls wandering through Indian-infested forests, "or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend"). Cooper still stands out as master of action-Indian wars, deer hunts, sleigh rides, combat with wild beasts, the spring run of bass-action in which the great American wilderness is always...
...first Voodoos (about 100) will go to the Strategic Air Command, where they will have many missions. Stationed at overseas bases, they will be able to ride escort on the B-47 and B-52 bombers, fight off enemy interceptors and even sweep ahead at full speed, blasting enemy air defense bases with A-bombs...
...Challenge. Some months ago, the Embassy awarded a $7,528,000 contract to the Piaggio yards in Palermo for a NATO destroyer escort. Later, when a new plantwide election was held, the Reds argued that "the bosses think the workers are such imbeciles that they can be blackmailed. They don't know that the workers have sufficient intelligence to understand that orders must be assigned to plants and yards which have necessary equipment and qualified personnel ... in spite of American millionaires." Result: the Reds increased the number of Communist shop stewards at Piaggio from four to seven...