Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jeune Homme et La Mort a Boston, premiere, is a Jean Cocteau creation based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Earthy and passionate, Jean Babilee and Nathalic Philippart conveyed well the brutality, horror, and the final beauty of this modern ballet. The acrobatic elements in the choreography, however, tended to detract from the symbolic force of the legend...
...consent decree, like those signed by RKO, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Brothers (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.), requires Loew's to sell 24 theaters outright, and possibly 50 others in its 131-theater chain, in order to encourage competition. Under the five consent decrees signed by the movie companies, more than 1,200 theaters will eventually be sold to independent exhibitors. Another 1,300 are slated to be run by the new theater companies that were organized after divorcement...
Before a Paris meeting of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, U.S. Delegate Channing Tobias rose one day last week to denounce Czechoslovakia's "grotesque performance" in imprisoning A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (TIME, May 7 et seq.). Since Oatis was merely performing the routine duties of a reporter, Tobias said, the U.S. will never "cease to protest the use of William Oatis as a pawn in the suppression of freedom." Added Belgian Delegate Fernand Dehousse: The Communist's definition of a good reporter is one who "must believe the word of the Czech government...
...bureau now has more than 3,000 subscribers ($4.80 a year) for its monthly forecasts. They are much appreciated by fuel distributors, ice-cream manufacturers, sportswear makers et al., whose business is affected by general trends in the weather. Namias hopes that as more observations flow in from remote parts of the earth, the forecasts will become both longer-range and more accurate...
...lives in a tony suburb of Gateway, a bustling Midwestern city. He is president of a thriving little company called Yaw-Et-Ag (Gateway spelled backwards), which manufactures musical auto horns. In a good year, he makes $20,000 before taxes, but nearly always ends up in the red. After all, one has to keep up with the next-door Ecleses. Jeff never cracks book; culture is his wife's department. He gets his fun shooting deer with a few old cronies from the Chowder & Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools...