Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, Speaker Sam Rayburn allowed that Ike's request for an increase in gasoline taxes (from 3? to 4½?) would get a "pretty cold reception." On the spend-and-spend side was a bulletin from the Democratic Advisory Council (Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, et al.) that damned the budget provisions as "weak and inadequate . . . Pocketbook before people . . . Close to being a fraud on the American people...
...Paraphrasing Horace: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...
...Gaulle's immense but simple ambition was to put France's economy "really and basically in order." Explaining his plans in a radio broadcast, he insisted that the only way France could hope to achieve long-term prosperity was on a foundation of vérité et sévèrité. The vérité was to be found in his abolition of scores of cushions, subsidies, favors and discriminations that have concealed the realities of the French economy even from the French themselves. The sévèrité would soon...
...went to work, they found that in 22% of the carafes the water contained colon bacilli, and no fewer than 69% held Staphylococcus aureus-including at least one of the deadly, penicillin-resistant strains that have caused wholesale epidemics and killed babies in some hospital nurseries (TIME, March 24 et...
...Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones. On the serious side, Director Asquith has had more surprising success. Dirk Bogarde (Doctor in the House, et seq.), best known in the U.S. as a sort of British Robert Wagner, turns in a remarkably subtle and mature performance as the heroic villain. As for the heroine, any competent judge of film flesh might confidently have ranked Leslie (Gigi) Caron a little lower than Jayne Mansfield...