Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these figures are deceiving, according to the scientists, who insist that students are at the crucial age in drinking development during college. "Each advancing year increases the probability that experimentation in the adult custom of drinking will be tried,' they claim...
Older Liberace fans insist that he reminds them of Rudolph Valentino, which is doubly odd: Valentino was not the pianist type, and, far from looking like the lean, dark actor, Liberace is pudgy, his curly hair is greying, his brow is broad. And he is not the strong, silent type. At a typical performance, he sits at the grand piano on a darkened stage with a 25-piece orchestra behind him and a discreet candelabra near by. He flashes a dazzling smile at the crowd, waves and mugs, squints up into the balcony and gushes into a convenient microphone...
Both the handbill and the marquee at the Plymouth Theatre insist that the current offering is a "light comedy." And indeed it is, a very funny one, buoyed above the usual theatrical problems and conflicts by recurring updrafts of fantastic whimsy. So that the audience may never doubt its airy intentions, The Little Hut is built on a desert island. Three shipwrecked Britishers live there: Philip, his wife Susan, and best friend Henry. Clothed in the dinner jackets and evening gown they were wearing when the ship foundered, these little corners of England brave the balmy wilderness with...
From Paris, Premier Joseph Laniel fired off an offer to complete negotiations for the full independence of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia-"within the French Union," the French hoped, but even outside it if the Indo-Chinese insist. Paris gave Navarre nine more battalions of French soldiers (eleven less than he asked for, but a lot when measured against France's supply). Washington, kept in touch with the detailed development of the plan by Ambassador Donald Heath, joined in further planning. Its decision: an addition of $385 million to the $400 million in aid that was already scheduled...
...still labors long and cheerfully in his dank ground-floor studio down an alley from the city's main street. He sells most of his pictures for under $50, and according to a friend, "if you express a special interest in something he has done, he'll insist on giving it to you." Eyuboglu's ambitions far outsoar commercial success. Says he: "My goal is to evolve an art as unique as Persian miniatures and Matisse, and as Turkish as our coffee and tobacco and figs...