Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion) unless it faces up soon to some basic choices. Next week at the U.S. Marine station at Quantico, Va., 175 of the nation's top military and civilian defense experts will take off coats and jackets, roll up their sleeves to wrestle with the big questions. Items: item...
Exotic Sale. A poodle went for $175; a pony given by Tennessee Ernie Ford netted $345. Most exotic item was a set of lavender sheets smeared with lipstick, which (the Cliff Hotel swore) had been used by Kim Novak. The sheets were bought by a tie manufacturer for $200, converted into cravats, and reauctioned as neckwear two nights later...
Another plea for the healing ministry came from the annual meeting of the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston last week. Notable agenda item: the trustees' report on the two Christian Science sanatoria in the U.S.-at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and in San Francisco. These establishments resemble hospitals except that patients go there to be healed by prayer and not by medicine. They also provide training for Christian Science nurses, who learn their techniques of prayer and care in three-year courses (regular registered nurses need only a one-year Christian Science course). Enrollments, according to the report...
...copper prices. Last week the peso was so shaky (off from 493 to the dollar to 780 at the free-trade rate since April, 1956) that Chileans were forced to stop all imports from the U.S. by ordering importers, before taking delivery, to deposit 10,000% of the import item's value in an escrow account for 90 days...
Yesterday was an all-time great. For our viewing pleasure, the Brattle served up an old but welcome Bogart-Bacall item; for our dining pleasure, Adams House served up not only bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches but also toasted frankfurters; and then, to crown the day with some more viewing pleasure, Steve Allen had as his guests on television Louis Armstrong, Van Cliburn and Peter Ustinov. Clearly it was one of the finest Sundays it is this reviewer's pleasure to remember...