Word: howards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arlen score, despite good rhythmic effects, never really gets its beat off the ground. The two or three times the dancing turns lively suggest a last two or three rounds of ammunition desperately fired at the advancing battalions of boredom. Carol Lawrence and Howard Keel are agreeable leads, but to little avail. With none of the succulence of a great big old-fashioned dinner, Saratoga induces all of the somnolence...
...test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens as the villain (Howard St. John) slinks upon the scene in the form of that well-known Cappitalist, General Bullmoose ("What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A."). His plot: to secure the secret formula of Yokumberry Tonic and sell it to the thirsty public as Yoka Cola...
...principles elsewhere. Said the Russians in a statement issued by the Soviet embassy in Washington: "The significance of this agreement goes beyond the limits of Antarctica and can be a good example for adopting similar decisions in respect to other regions of the globe." Australia's Ambassador Howard Beale raised the intriguing possibility that the treaty might serve as a model for another uninhabited, potentially disputed region: "the outer reaches of space...
Died. Fred S. Ferguson. 72, president of NEA Service (1926-58), a Scripps-Howard newspaperman for 50 years; in Huntington...
...threats finally brought Livingston Merchant, top U.S. State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...