Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tastefully toppered for the Epsom Derby, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ignored with statesmanlike restraint an infield dotted with an "American" striptease tent, a rock-'n'-roll band and a "Beautiful Slave Girl in the Grip of a Fifteen-Foot Deadly Reptile," watched with reserve as Crepello, the favorite, galloped home free (see SPORT...
...those on the reservation from yielding to such impulses when the oil starts to flow. Among both Navajos and Utes, money from leases on reservation lands goes not to individuals but to the tribe, and the tribal councils, with approval of the U.S. Government, have taken a firm grip on the purse strings. Last week, as the 74-member Navajo council pored over the $12 million fiscal-1958 budget at the tribe's octagonal headquarters in Window Rock, Ariz., a Federal Indian Affairs Bureau official remarked: "They're looking over each dollar as if it were a newborn...
...wife and five children. But like many an Irish boy brought up around the "Horseshoe" District of the late Frank Hague's sprawling, dirty Jersey City, Murray is a hard-rock politician at heart. Last week Jim Murray broke Hague Successor John V. Kenny's eight-year grip on Jersey City...
...comedian, even the TV Pleistocene Age's Milton Berle, has matched Sid Caesar's staying power or his grip on the loyalty of hard-core fans. More than that, by common show-business consent, he is one of the truly great clowns. Apart from sheer technical mastery of pantomime, dialect, timing and the ad lib, Caesar has a creative gift for spoofing the stuffy and the phony and for finding endless fun in universal human foibles and frustrations. His career, which began as a $10-a-week saxophonist on New York's borsch circuit, has made...
Injuries could be expensive for the Crimson this week since Penn is scheduled at Philadelphia on Wednesday and Yale at Soldiers Field on Saturday. The Elis retain a tight grip on the EIBL since Dartmouth dropped out of the undefeated class over the week...