Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four new part-time assistants have been named to the football coaching staff, Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, has announced. Three were members of the same Crimson team, and the fourth played at West Point...
...Alabama four potential candidates for governor set a political pattern for the South, each desperately trying to outdo the others in praise of Faubus. One wired Faubus his congratulations. Another promised to back Faubus "at all costs." A third offered to go to jail to prevent integration. The fourth topped them all: he was willing to die for segregation...
...leader of a delegation of five Moroccan women to the fourth congress of the Pan-Arab Women's Federation in Damascus, smoking cigarettes with Continental casualness in a decolleté, skin-tight gown which had the other 300 delegates from nine Arab countries* goggling, the princess tucked one shapely foot under her and discussed her favorite topics: divorce and the veil. Morocco, she said, will soon have a law requiring men to produce legitimate reasons for a divorce instead of just telling a woman three times to go away. "Of course," she added, "we cannot forbid divorce, and besides...
Search for Paradise (Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp.), the fourth Cinerama production, pursues the formula to its travelogical absurdity. As far as the scenery goes, Search is able to find plenty of it in the Himalayas. Airborne, the camera looks down like Shiva on the glittering tremendum of eternal snows; waterborne, it hurls the watcher through a thrilling passage of some rapids on the Indus River. But when the travel stops and the story begins, the show turns out to be a quasi-Oriental epic with a superman for a hero. The superman: radio's Lowell Thomas, who just happens...
Despite these portents, businessmen will not be certain of a bigger-than-seasonal fourth-quarter pickup unless there is also a sharp rise in new orders to whittle down fat inventories. Inventories are now about $4 billion higher than at the same time last year; manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will...