Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like anyone lavishing money around, and often incurring more ill will among those he disappoints than friendship among those he favors, Uncle Sam finds it hard to get across the notion that aid programs are not certificates of sympathy and merit but barometers of danger, need and opportunity. Cold-war spending is a jumble of crash programs, hard bargaining and erratic generosity. The circumstances which determine who among friends and neutrals gets the most money, however, are not all of U.S. making. Sometimes the degree of a country's exposure to military and political intrusion by the Communists...
...keeping Hollywood smut out of the scandal magazines (TIME, March 11), a federal grand jury in Chicago last week struck at the nation's best-selling scandal magazine for putting smut in the mail. In a six-count indictment, New York-based Confidential and its Mount Morris (Ill.) distributing agency, the Kable Printing Co., were charged with mailing "nonmailable matter . . . which gives . . . information on how and by what means abortion may be produced." What prompted the indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill That Ends Unwanted Pregnancy." Though written in the magazine...
...real raggledaggle show-business type"), and by the time she was in her early teens, she was out of school and in a song and dance act. Finally she married a sometime actor named Don Lanning, settled down with him in Miami, operating a restaurant. When her husband fell ill of cancer in 1953 and lost his bar concession, Roberta found herself with three boys on her hands (now 16, 13 and 8) and no money coming in. While she was being refused one singing job after another because of her age, she kept the family going with occasional...
Since Yale's ace freestylers Rex Aubrey and captain Dave Armstrong (who has also reported ill) could not compete yesterday without cutting so many classes as to become ineligible for the N.C.A.A. championships later this month, the Elis' record-setting relay combination was not in the Easterns...
...whole, the film fits into the existentialist framework, though with two or three rough edges. The heroine, played by comely Michele Morgan, is passing through a small South American town with her husband as the film opens. He is gravely ill with what develops to be meningitis. He dies horribly on a filthy newspaper-covered mattress, retching as he dies. The whole town then quarantined is threatened by the plague...