Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruisers and carriers. Regulus I is not only the Navy's first operational offensive missile, but it has been and can be used aboard Navy surface ships as well as aboard Navy submarines. I believe that the Navy would concur in saying that Regulus I is an outstanding item among the family of guided missiles now in operation...
Amiable Idiots. In The Fifth Wheel, Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS) seemed to have an engaging little item. It was made up of a couple of crooks, a couple of priests, the Never Worry Finance Co., a magenta automobile that one of the priests calls Rosey, and $35,000 in cash, robbed from a bank, that the crooks have hidden in Rosey's spare tire. Unfortunately, neither the author, the director nor the actors seemed to realize that the strength of farce rests on credibility and surprise. The incidents that were not predictable were unbelievable, and both crooks...
...immediately sent the agency a hot letter calling their attention to the chronological fact that Sherwood was under 21 when he had purchased the clothes. Consequently the bill was uncollectable by law. At once, I was hit with a letter from the agency calling my special attention to an item for $40, with interest, owed by me for purchases at one of Harvard Square's leading drug stores...
More and more leaders of governments show themselves in foreign capitals these days. Visits like that of Britain's Sir Anthony Eden to Washington this week have two kinds of meaning-practical and symbolic. Main item on the practical agenda of the Eden visit is to reach U.S.British agreement on some world trouble spots, especially on the Communist threat to the Middle East (TIME, Jan. 16). But this effort will probably be sterile unless the talks are permeated by the symbolic meaning of Eden in Washington. Diplomatist George Kennan to the contrary, international relations are not mere projections...
...prove himself a better man than Huey, once proclaiming, "Huey couldn't have been elected dogcatcher without my help." But Earl could never develop the splendor of Alexander the Great and Huey. Once Earl, entertaining friends at his home, spread out a copy of the hostile New Orleans Item, and spent the afternoon spitting...