Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is only one question left: why haven't stabilizers been able to keep down prices and wages? A rise in both is bound to accompany the end of hostilities in the steel mills. The reason for this is the twilight of half-peace and half-war that shrouds the nation. There is reason enough for controls, yet not enough to elicit a no-strike pledge. Price-wage control and industrial peace therefore are somewhat incompatible. The President, faced with a choice between the two, choose the latter. Although inflation is a menace indeed, when labor troubles jeopardize America...
...proximity to a man's college, many of the girls feel they might as will save their lipstick and good clothes for the weekends. Sarah Lawrence is a four-year, five-day-a-week college With New York only 60 cents and 30 minutes away by train, and New Haven and Princeton within a stone's throw from there, Sarah Lawrencians realize that if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed. And so, come Friday's metamorphosis, hordes of students don skirts and heels and migrate for their weekends entertainment...
...flagpole of a graceful, lagoon-fronted building in Tokyo one day last week. Japanese workmen briskly removed "Off Limits" signs from the grounds. For six years, the famed Imperial Hotel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1922, had been a symbol of Japan's defeat and the opulent haven of U.S. VIPs, generals and colonels, who luxuriated rent-free in its fine rooms, savored sumptuous meals for 40? and dispensed tips of two or three cigarettes with the grand gesture of selfless philanthropists. Last week, returned to its Japanese owners, the Imperial became a symbol of Japan...
Balcon, 55, runs Ealing with few Hollywood mannerisms. "I'm not a glamour boy," he says. "I loathe cigars, I haven't got a swimming pool, I've only been married once, and I'm a mass of indecisions." His writers and directors talk over their ideas at round-table conferences, often held in a pub across the street...
...Budd is just a little bit too good to be true, and Claggart--what motivates the man to behave so meanly? You find yourself wondering why he is in secure--but then you realize that Melville didn't think in those terms and playwrights Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman haven't worried about bringing the plot up to date psychologically...