Word: grantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business is as bad as it was in 1932," says Jeweler Harold Klivans. But hardware stores have thrived selling paint and other do-it-yourself items to strikers; many a steelworker has taken advantage of the strike to paint the woodwork and put up long-postponed shelves. Stores that grant credit freely have fared much better than those with no credit plans. "We're hurting and hurting bad," says Assistant Manager Robert Engler of a cash-only dime store on downtown Federal Street. But Bertram Lustig, owner of seven Youngstown shoe stores, says that "surprisingly, September was a pretty...
...Brown's effort was the Western Governors' Conference at Idaho's handsome Sun Valley Lodge. Briefed by political scouts back from neighboring statehouses, Brown hustled into Sun Valley, went to work on the other arriving Democratic Governors: Washington's Albert Rosellini, Nevada's Grant Sawyer, New Mexico's John Burroughs and Colorado's Stephen L. R. McNichols. They should, Brown urged, all "zero in" on a regional favorite for President; it was well understood that he had in mind zeroing in on none other than California's Pat Brown. He invited...
...overstuffed priest. A village washerwoman (Sylvie) tells him that she is 62, tired and alone. For uncounted years she has turned out every morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries and a priest throws them...
North by Northwest. The master's Hitchcockiest yarn in years gives a picture of the CIA that would make any real-life operative laugh his head off; nevertheless, suspense guaranteed. With Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
Regardless of the merits of his legal arguments, there are several objections to the test-case procedure. As Howe himself has admitted, the government might not sue to recover the misallocated funds; it might merely refuse to grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half...