Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GLASS-INDUSTRY SLUMP is growing so acute (because of 200% jump in cut-rate imports since 1954) that prices of heavy sheet window glass and light picture-frame glass are being lowered 7% to 16%. Big companies, operating some plants at 50% to 75% capacity, are going along with cuts started by Libbey-Owens-Ford to match foreign prices, but complain that reductions are unrealistic because glass workers' wages will soon rise about 12? an hour...
...kissable lips" and her favorite boast ("All my lovers and I are just friends!"). In getting Jayne's product endorsement in the bag, Rock is nearly bagged by her, almost sandbagged by his fiancee (Betsy Drake), almost pulverized by Jayne's tree-swinging steady frame (Biceps Boy Mickey Hargitay). As "the biggest thing since chlorophyll," Hunter is soon glorified as the agency's president. He is assured by his predecessor (John Williams): "Success will fit you like a shroud...
...best; but the second best of Shakespeare--as of Brutus--is impressive. Still, the serious main story of Hero and Claudio in Much Ado is pallid stuff, and is based more on accident and coincidence than a Hardy novel. Shakespeare obviously took this tale just as a frame to hang some original fun on. What impresses us (as it did Berlioz in fashioning his last opera) is the sparkling and witty comedy of Beatrice and Benedick, along with the wonderful farce of the constable Dogberry and his night watch...
There is more than a bare possibility that Lieut. General Khrushchev will read and see the illustrations in TIME'S cover story. May I suggest that he cut out and frame the picture of himself greeting a little child. Let us hope he will look at this picture daily and see in it what Americans would gladly see if we could divorce it from the overcast of contemporary historical shadows...
...yearly petrol consumption). It is planned to have 20 wells operating by the end of 1958. The excitement of bringing in the big "bear cats" does not disturb the calm of the bespectacled chief engineer, Christian Redron, who wears nothing but khaki shorts and sandals on a skinny frame burned to leather by the sun. But Redron's eye lights up when he speaks of what it means to his country: "Just wait till we get the first oil to France. To help us celebrate, I'll get the Paris office to send us the Blue Bell girls...