Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his side had the top hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist putschs in Poznan and Hungary," and "its relations with so-called...
...Khan and his great and good friend, French Model Bettina, cavorted on the carousel, U.S. Ambassador Jock Whitney sloshed into a mud puddle, and Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime British attorney general, navigated a rumba. Mike missed no chance to brandish the pregnancy of his third wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor. Item: at the première, piqued when distinguished guests were tardy, Todd rushed his wife to a chair, crying for all to hear: "What would you do if your wife was pregnant?" Item: at the party, a drunken guest teetered against Liz. Todd seized the sot, pushed...
That Dow-Jones Boy. Pat allows himself one eccentricity besides the beard. He collects clocks, has "20 or 30 of them," mostly ornate gilded continental models with trick features. Samples: a globe-shaped item with a set-in castle scene over which the sun and moon rise at appropriate times; a miniature tower clock in a living-room painting that goes off every 15 minutes ("You should be around at midnight. It's orgiastic...
...Associated Press nor the United Press filed a single story on the fight. Nor was it an isolated skirmish. On a grander scale, some TV network executives charge, economic rivalry is prompting newspapers to wage a subtle and far-reaching campaign to discredit TV even while they promote it. Item: Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram and Sun in the past month has run four Page One stories quoting authorities ranging from Poet Carl Sandburg to Scriptwriter Goodman Ace in dispraise of TV's "cultural smog" and "deathless mediocrity...
...variety of special European junkets (e.g., for gourmets, winebibbers, music lovers), a Los Angeles travel agency added a new item: the hypochondriac's tour. The eight-week swing through Europe will be shepherded by a staff internist from a California sanitarium. "Conversation regarding ailments and ill health will be taboo," announces the brochure. "While anyone feeling ill will request and promptly receive treatment, our physician leader will, except in private consultation, act as one of the party out to enjoy the sights." Cost for the trip, including first-class travel and physician...