Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other half drowned by the river, while the whole is waterlogged with debt." This description of the Indus valley, made long ago by a British official, holds true today. But the wet and dry Indus valley has a further melancholy distinction: as much as anything else except Kashmir, it serves to keep India and Pakistan at swords' points...
...first show as Milton Berle's TV summer replacement (NBC, Wed., 9 p.m.), it seemed tasteful and gratifyingly fresh. A comedian who works primarily in pantomime, King is a kind of Jack Tati in his characterization of the well-meaning Englishman who really could cope with life except for the fact that the world itself is a little out of kilter...
With U.S. addicts estimated to number somewhere between 60,000 and 300,000, dispensing of narcotics is under such strict federal regulation that (except for thefts from hospitals and doctors) practically no legitimate drugs get to the addicts. But tons of narcotics are smuggled in, mostly from Italy, much by such Mafia leaders as Vito Genovese. The Treasury Department's 420-man Bureau of Narcotics cannot check the flood...
...banker's banker" phrase did not really do Jack Lewis justice. He also had one of those sharp, searching minds that made him a rugged competitor in a business that only in the last decade or so has started to hustle. "We have nothing to sell except service," said Lewis. He was one of the first to install business machines to help tellers figure accounts rapidly, in 1956 ordered an all-electronic bookkeeping system. And when most banks limited the number of checks a depositor could issue without charge in any one month, Lewis' slogan was "checks without...
...course, although the Russians have offered proposals similar to this one on several occasions in the past, they are not likely to accept it now. Almost any form of re-unification could be acceptable to the West, except one that involved the entry of Soviet troops into West Germany (Russian soldiers form rapid attachments to places they visit, and they just hate to go home). The Soviets seem to be taking the attitude of "Nobody really wants to unify Germany" and are concentrating rather on hardening and formalizing the lines that currently divide Europe...