Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flashbacks, Tully tells where the skids led him. As the comic, MC Hal March of The $64,000 Question gave a fine performance. Unfortunately, Tully's salvation, i.e., the love of a good woman, is almost as glib as his wisecracks. But thanks to Author Aurthur's grip on the character, the problem and the jangling atmosphere, TV's own version of a tired old theatrical and movie staple-the backstage story-proves in this case to have freshness and bite...
Dartmouth has never beaten Harvard in squash recquets and would like to catch the Crimson, with two defeats in its last three matches, in the grip of a mid-season slump...
...YORK, Feb. 13--The second dock strike in three months today held tight grip on Atlantic ports from Maine to Virginia. Mile upon mile of busy waterfront subsided to almost ghostlike silence...
...grip last week of an oil-production shortage that kept it from shipping enough oil to Europe and reduced domestic reserves to dangerously low levels. On its post-Suez promise to deliver 500,000 bbls. of crude oil daily to Europe, the U.S. has thus far made good on an average of less than 300,000 bbls. daily. To make the situation worse, much of the oil has come from U.S. reserve stocks, which have dropped from 284 million bbls. to 254 million bbls. since the beginning of November, and are now below the minimum set by the Interior Department...
Working out its new policy for the Middle East, the U.S. has sighted on Saudi Arabia's King Saud as a Middle East ruler with a close grip on reality. How close the grip and how important the ally was intimated when President Eisenhower announced that in welcoming Saud to Washington this week for a three-day state visit, he would depart from his long-standing custom. Instead of greeting the King on the White House steps as he has done in the past with other chiefs of state, Ike will go to Washington's National Airport, welcome...