Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from windows and doors. We kept this out of the Egyptian press by censorship, for fear it would provoke popular acts against British and French citizens. We decided to tell British and French citizens they could not leave their homes . . . About 2,000 of these people have asked for exit visas, and about 1,000 of them have gone." As for the Jews, only "about 30 out of 45,000 Egyptian Jews have been arrested...
...unique capacity for swallowing Communist lies was not yet exhausted. All the talk about deportation of Hungarians to Siberia, he suggested, might have occurred because the Hungarian government "have taken steps to allow some representatives of the workers ... to go themselves to sit at the various points of exit from Hungary to see if anything was being done there or anybody sent away. Now it is quite conceivable that ... it might have been thought that they were being deported...
...Service Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the rope provided by the hotel as a fire escape, the rope broke...
...wedding of Grace and Prince Rainier, but also used everybody's real names and even called Monaco Monaco. One ditty in the show, starring Ethel Merman, gaily spoofed "social climbers, wisenheimers" and informed listening Mainliners that they are "snooty snobs." Grace's sister Lizanne made her exit before the first-act curtain-"to get home to the baby-sitter." Thunderous applause burst out when one line of the script grudgingly allowed: "All the Kellys are nice people." Rainier and Grace had fortunately missed the show, preferring to stay in Maryland with friends, as the Princess's mother...
...Bumpy Exit. NBC's Opera Theater has been widely admired on television, but sponsors are still wary. This year NBC decided that if more people could hear their brand of intelligible and dramatic opera in person, they would tune in television opera in droves...