Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, in a series of spectacular flashes, the overheated Middle East took fire: pro-Nasser army officers overthrew Iraq's pro-Western monarchy, and within 40 hours U.S. marines moved into Lebanon. The absentee arsonist looked with an appraising eye on international wind and weather; given an unexpected change, his own house might be in danger of going up in the conflagration. For 72 hours the world assumed Nasser was still aboard the yacht, but not a word was heard from him. Then his official Middle East News Agency put out a terse summary of his surprising change...
...capital cities. Carefully gathering answers from every group in the socio-economic spectrum, the pollsters were out to discover just how Latin America feels about the U.S. after the stoning of Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas. This week LIFE EN ESPAÑOL (July 28) published the eye-opening results...
...sagebrush, horse racing's grand old man, Trainer James ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, this week celebrates his 84th birthday, shows no signs of slowing to a sedate canter. Up at 4:45 a.m. for his day at the track, Mr. Fitz still keeps two dozen thoroughbreds under his watchful eye, including Stakes Winner ($764,204 so far) Bold Ruler. At night, naturally. Fitz stays abreast of horseflesh problems the TV way: watching westerns...
...television in Japan, a nation rapidly becoming as TV-obsessed as the U.S. In a soap opera, A Comic Housemaid, the heroine habitually complains of a racking headache in midscene, gulps down an Arakawa Drug Co. remedy and announces: "Now I'm ready for anything." One private eye uses a drugstore as rendezvous-a drugstore whose shelves are conspicuously filled with the sponsor's patent medicines. In another samurai episode, the hero vanquished a batch of evildoers, then warily approached a wayside shrine whence came a mysterious breeze; he jerked the shrine door open to discover...
...story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion, now in the doldrums, to pick up speed again. Many companies, particularly in heavy industries, can be expected to examine their present capacity with an eye to future contingencies, dust off expansion plans they had previously deferred during the recession...