Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bourgeois," recalls one, "and we used the materials we felt safe with. We worked through the Rotary Club, the bar association, the medical association." At first they held a long "civic dialogue" with Batista, aimed at persuading him to hold a fair election. That failed. "Then we tried military action, thinking that a few key leaders here and there would do the trick." Batista got wind of this plot, led by Lieut. Colonel Ramón Barquin, and squashed it handily (TIME, April...
After semi-singing his way through more than 600 performances of Broadway's nonstop musical My Fair Lady, Actor Rex Harrison sailed away from his historic stint. Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were headed for a seven-week holiday in Switzerland, then to Paris, where Kay will wrestle with Rex in a movie titled The Reluctant Debutante. When April trips round again next year, Harrison will be doing business in the same old stance-as misogynous Professor 'Enry 'Iggins...
...looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy") and do a very fair imitation of throaty, top-ranking Jazz Singer June Christy. To the tub-thumping rhythm of an intense promotional campaign by RCA Victor, Jennie just finished a month of bouncing about the country buttering up disk jockeys and celebrating the release of her first LP (called Jennie, and decorated with a torchlit...
...learn as much as possible about the enemy's equipment. This is done by submarines and "ferret" planes that eavesdrop on enemy radars and try to record the electronic voices of interceptors and guided missiles. Every shred of information is analyzed, including false information, and a fair idea of the enemy's electronics is built...
Chrysler Corp.'s heavy stock of 1957 models cut into its 1958 sales (although the industry as a whole had whittled '57 stocks to a manageable 240,000). Plymouth sales were just fair, Dodge and De-Soto slow, but Chrysler and Imperial were up. Percentagewise, best gains were made by American Motors. Sales of its Rambler in November's first 20 days climbed...