Word: gray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with these European governments is that they're all run by foreigners" stood out among the evening's whimsical gems. Milton Lyons' direction was intolerably slow, listless, and indifferent. The costumes designed by Louise Smith were gaudy and in very poor taste. Miss Smith's diplomats, incidentally, wear gray flannel trousers...
...sensuous counterpoint between "beauty, cruelty, voluptuousness and suffering, all equally delicious." What is not delicious about Hélène and what finally destroys her relationship with Jean is her feral determination to belong only to herself. Outwardly unmarred but inwardly depraved, she is a female Dorian Gray. But even with an unbeautiful soul, the game of love is scarcely over at 18, and with her penchant for sequels, Author Mallet-Joris may yet salvage Hélène in time to win some future match...
...underwrites 60% of the national research effort, also tends to emphasize practical rather than theoretical value. At least 93% of Government research money placed with industry goes for specific projects; $4 of every $5 in Government research grants to universities also specify applied research. Says Whirlpool-Seeger President Elisha Gray II: "The paucity of support for basic research could be our Achilles' heel...
...message service itself is a pretty amazing thing, proving as it apparently does that there was some sense in the pony express idea after all. Since most students living in Yard dormitories for the summer do not have private telephones, the Gray Hall office will take any incoming telephone message between the hours of 1 and 11 p.m. every day. It then makes two copies of the message, keeping one at hand and sending the other via immediate messenger to the dormitory room of the person being called. If you miss the note in your room, you can always pick...
Married. Gordon Gray, 47, shy, sandy-haired Assistant Secretary of Defense, ex-president (1950-55) of the University of North Carolina, onetime (1949-50) Secretary of the Army and special assistant to Harry Truman on foreign aid (the "Gray Report"), first director of the U.S. Government's Psychological Strategy Board, head of the special security board of the AEC that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to the nation's top atom secrets, publisher; and Mrs. Nancy Maguire Beebe, 31; both for the second time; in Washington...