Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane at Cairo, Hammarskjold sewed up Egyptian consent to his plan for healing Egypt's worst Israeli border sore spot, the demilitarized desert crossroads at El Auja, where blood flowed freely last November. Each side agreed to pull back its forces and let the U.N. go ahead and fix the demarcation lines...
...Thomas Nast caricature of the bediamonded, potbellied lobbyist has faded beyond recognition. Says American Hotel Association Lobbyist Donald Montgomery: "Some businessmen are still stupid enough to want a crook for a lobbyist, a guy who can make the quick fix. But those characters are out of date." In to replace him has come a well-trained, accommodating technical expert whose facts-tailored, of course, to fit his own cause-are presented not in a backroom, but at a formal hearing. One of the lobbyist's biggest jobs is to gauge political winds and determine what he can get. Said...
...just one more routine Late Arrival. But as luck had it, one of the irate passengers was Massachusetts' Republican Representative John W. Heselton. Fuming at what he called New Haven President Patrick McGinnis' "public-be-damned policy," Heselton announced that he will ask Congress to fix "civil or criminal penalties" for railroaders who cannot run their trains on time...
...ocean. Anybody who sees this picture, made by Allen H. Miner and Gerald Schnitzer on a West Coast tuna clipper, will soon see why. He will also see a handsome piece of movie journalism, and so many fish that when he describes the catch his wife will hurry to fix him a cup of black coffee...
...frame. Frankie finds himself in jail on a bum rap. In return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain of being alive. He begs a blonde tramp...