Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hit Goliath hard and good: David Ben-Gurion...
...many Bolivians. Some miners will lose their jobs; almost all of them will pay more for food. Black-marketeers and influence-peddlers by the thousands will have to go to work. Prices, for those who used to get subsidized commodities, will go up. Among the groups that will be hit, President Siles' popularity is bound to drop. Yet his great popularity is almost the only weapon Siles has to use in putting the reforms across; Bolivia's main armed force is not a government-directed regular army; it is the revolutionary militia set up by miners and other...
COMMUNIST CURRENCIES are plummeting because of satellite unrest. Hungary's forint, pegged officially at 12½, hit alltime low of less than 1? on Zurich and New York free markets, as refugees rushed to sell at any price. Russia's ruble, pegged officially at 25?, has dropped on U.S. free market to 7? v. 12½ one year...
...Video Theater's Hollywood Holiday Musical Revue (Dec. 20, 10 p.m., NBC) will reclaim hit tunes from top movies over the past 25 years, with Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae and Phil Harris, all in color...
...Boston and Providence, NBC affiliates have dropped the costly live network show, Your Hit Parade, so they can start their own movie features half an hour earlier that night. NBC's nightly Tonight, with Steve Allen, has been so badly mauled by competing movies that the network is revamping the show-though, gamely, still on a live basis. What NBC dreads is that it may one day be helpless to accommodate an advertiser on its full national network because too many of its ISO-odd "optional" affiliates will be engrossed by Robert Taylor making love to Lana Turner...