Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David has long since left problems of technique far behind. He is completely in the service of the music's content, and yesterday his taste was impeccable. He played well into the keys, and elicited from the piano a superb tone--none of the fortissimos had even a hint of harshness. In short, he played like his teacher, Rudolf Serkin, with all the latter's foot-stamping...
...India nearly every political discussion sooner or later ends in the same question: Who will take over when 68-year-old Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru passes from the scene? Last week Indians got a strong hint on how Nehru himself proposes to answer the question. To replace hapless T. T. Krishnamachari, forced out of office by a scandal over government misuse of insurance funds (TIME, March 3), Nehru chose as his Finance Minister 62-year-old Morarji Desai, who was Minister of Commerce and Industry...
...worst slides, may have hit bottom. Though car-loadings for the year are still 17.5% below 1957, railroaders attribute at least part of the trouble to winter snows that tied up Eastern lines during February, and note a small but definite uptrend so far in March. A second hint that companies may start ordering soon: during a walkout at Aluminum Co. of America's Alcoa (Tenn.) plant late in January, General Electric Co. got a court order after four days to enter the plant and get desperately needed aluminum it had on order...
...snow turned into slush, a hint of spring tinged the air. and romance was off again, on again. Collared in mink and hatted in velvet, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 42, beaming on an old beau she had met in the late '30s in Branford, Conn., took as her fourth husband German-born Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque, 59. In Las Vegas, onetime Queen-for-a-day Leona Gage, 18. who got bounced from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis...
...which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head of state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This is a big hint that it is not too late for King Saud to line up with his fellow sovereigns. At week's end Amman reported that the oil-rich Persian Gulf sheiks of Kuwait and Bahrein were "considering" joining...