Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over whisky sours in White Sulphur Springs' lavish Greenbrier Hotel, two big men talked earnestly. From a respectful distance, other governors and correspondents watched them. "There may be the Republican presidential ticket in 1952," said a reporter. "They might just toss a coin to see who gets top place." He was talking about California's Governor Earl Warren and Pennsylvania's Governor James Duff...
...lavish caviar & champagne banquet, attended by all the top Soviet brass, Moscow last week honored visiting Finnish Premier Urho Kekkonen. The Premier had earned his fine meal. He had just signed a five-year trade treaty that is designed to shackle stubborn little Finland's economy to Russia for good. Under the new treaty, nearly all of Finland's foreign trade will be geared to Russia: machinery, ships, lumber products and prefabricated houses in return for Soviet grain, fertilizers, raw materials and oil. Finnish sales to Russia will increase each year, making Finland ever more dependent on Soviet...
Palace & Circus. By the time Producer Sam Zimbalist and Stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor arrived, Nero's Rome was as lavish as the original. Some 3,000 Italian workmen were putting the last careful touches on a mammoth reproduction of Nero's palace and a wooden replica of the Emperor's circus. A facsimile of the slimy, green-watered River Tiber had been dug, and for the single scene to be shot outside Cinedtta, a section of the Appian Way had been repaved...
First Secretary to the Soviet U.N. Delegation Leonid A. Morozov signed a lease for the summer on the lavish, 47-room, 18-bathroom Long Island home of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, which was once (1945-47) rented by Amtorg as a haven for relaxing Russian bigwigs...
...star: Betty Hutton. As something extra, Actress Hutton will pop up as co-star with Fred Astaire this summer in another brightly colored song & dance film, Paramount's Let's Dance. Though Hollywood's box office has been slumping, there are still surefire receipts in a lavish Technicolored musical-and not enough surefire cinemusical stars to go around. As the cinemusical girl of 1950, Betty holds just about as firm a grip on the immediate future as Hollywood can offer...