Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press as a "new Soviet conciliatory gesture to Britain," as the Russians meant that it should be. But Alf and Clara had no concern for such talk. Clara called him from Moscow before she boarded the plane for freedom. "What do you think about moving in with a big, fat slob like me after seven years?" he asked. "It's a risk worth taking," said...
...vain. In Florida alone, one broker reported he had 25 buying offers, not one to sell. In Michigan, ex-Senator Blair Moody, who had lined up capital for a daily (TIME, Aug. 17), had not been able to find one to buy. The reason: newspapers in general are making fat profits, anywhere from 6% to 15% after taxes. Few owners want to sell, and those who do demand top prices...
...ancient Zapotec ruins at Oaxaca, Mexico. A footloose insurance agent (Glenn Ford) comes into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with slugging and shooting. This sort of thing has been done better a number of times, but the scenery...
...hillsides teemed with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
What Mansure has been boiling down is Government fat. Last week saw two typical Mansurian economies. To provide the new Foreign Economic Policy Commission with new office furniture would have cost $17,400. Instead, he moved the agency into the space of the liquidated Wage Stabilization Board. Cost: $6.092. Mansure also produced a new procurement form which does in six pages and for about $5 worth of paper work what used to take as many as 35 pages and $10 worth of paper work...