Word: kins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exchanging its old, cramped print shop for a brand-new, concrete-and-glass plant on Milan's outskirts; 2) moving into the recording business; 3) continuing its forays into the pop field, having just launched an 18-year-old, blue-jeaned, guitar-whanging singer named Giorgio Gabor (no kin). Ricordi executives hope that Giorgio will turn out to be a prosciutto version of Presley...
...Africa, in a 15-ton ketch called Daisy of Maldon, plan to do hydrographic surveys for the Admiralty, poke archaeologically at a 18th century Portuguese fort, skindive for wrecks, and test the effects of a four-man jazz combo on African ears. "Also," says Expedition Leader Anthony Churchill (no kin), "we may try distilling gin from seaweed." Oxford's Exploration Club is sending out a group which will exhaustively classify the flora and fauna in a mountain-locked Tanganyika valley...
...distant kin to the late Frank Gannett, who ran a bigger chain-currently 20 papers in four states. Guy's papers: the Portland Press-Herald, Express and Sunday Telegram, the Waterville Sentinel, and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta. Combined circulation...
Next day Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson campaigned quietly among the big names of Capitol Hill (including New Mexico's Democrat Clint Anderson-no kin), faced the Democrat-dominated Joint Congressional Economic Committee, stoutly resisted charges that "living within our means" is a negative policy. Said Anderson: "The fact of the matter is that there is almost nothing which is more positive than fiscal soundness." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.. also appearing before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, bluntly warned that there was "never a more important time than now" for balancing the budget. Behind Martin...
...Cannon of Illinois -last of the truly autocratic leaders of the House. This week TIME carries on its cover the face of the present Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn of Texas. Also on the cover is the arresting face of another Cannon, Missouri's Clarence (no kin). With them are the three other individualistic legislative leaders who share, in the 86th Congress, the position of power once held, in effect, by Uncle Joe Cannon alone. For the story of the House and its evolution from Joe Cannon to a subtle, interlocking series of relationships, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...