Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed up at the Cherry Hills Club for a round of golf on its tough, 72-par course. As he played, he was trailed by four Secret Service men, all carrying golf bags from which protruded three or four ancient and ill-assorted.clubs. Two of the bags contained an additional item o: equipment which many a golfer has wished for in moments of stress-a carbine. The other two masked walkie-talkies for emergency communication. An Army Signal Corpsman, whose golf bag also contained a walkie-talkie set, sat beneath a white arbor near the clubhouse ready t« make contact...
...your Aug. 3 account of my forced resignation from the presidency of the University of Illinois . . . there is one item that constitutes a misstatement: "Last winter he [Stoddard] got into a fight with Illinois Governor William G. Stratton, who refused as unreasonable Stoddard's request for more than a half million dollars to set up a university TV station." Actually, the Governor never received any such request from the university . . . The maximum amount approved by the board of trustees was $175,000 per year. Since the Governor would not approve the total university askings, which included this item...
...most outstandingly decrepit item is the French tax system. Frenchmen pay taxes (33% of their gross national product, compared with 27% in the U.S.), but the tax load falls unfairly on consumers. An industrial worker with two children, earning $1.000 a year, pays 15% income tax (in the U.S. he would pay nothing). On the other hand, two million French farm families, one-third of the population, pay next to nothing. Politicians dare not anger them. Farm income is calculated on the basis of land values last assessed in 1908. Since then, prices have jumped 170 times...
...When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague sort. While at the Bukistanian court, Importer Grant spots an item he would love to pay duty on: the Khan's sexy daughter, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John...
...About 80% of U.S. supermarkets have added dietetic departments featuring low-calorie foods. Their sales total some $25 million a year, and within a decade, the industry thinks, volume should hit $140 million. Said one Seattle chain-store manager last week: "All you have to do to sell an item to a housewife now is put the magic word 'nonfattening...