Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began under strict wraps "to encourage Russian frankness." That night at No. 10, Prime Minister Eden gave a banquet, at which Britain's great appeared in "lounge suits" in deference to their guests' limited wardrobe. B. & K. came in voluminous gabardine topcoats over grey suits. But the hit of the evening was Sir Winston Churchill, pink and beaming at the old familiar door, waving a cigar and giving a V sign. Bulganin gave a jovial speech in which he obliquely compared Khrushchev to Churchill...
...were unwilling (or felt no need) to make any real end to the cold war in Europe, or agree to any solution of the big problem, which was Germany. B. and K. went galumphing off to India and Burma where in a riot of flowers and oriental emotionalism Khrushchev hit his old demagogic stride. Asian adulation went to Nikita's head. Those who were waiting for Communism to crumble (i.e., the West), he told Pravda readers, would have "to wait until shrimps learn to whistle...
Practically unrecognizable in his Okinawan getup, Cinemactor Marlon Brando looked uncharacteristically scrutable on a movie location in Japan, where M-G-M is making a film version of Broadway's long-run (1,020 performances) hit, Teahouse of the August Moon...
...speed of sound (TIME, Nov. 21), but according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...
Leading the jayvee attack were Jim Shue and Alan Slotkin, who both went two for two, and Bobo McGarrity, who hit safely twice in his three times...