Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quad represent a challenge to the club system. Opinions vary on how the clubs will meet it. One theory says that they will try to broaden themselves intellectually in order to compete with the alternative on its own terms; another says they will retreat into their social shell and let those with intellectual predilections go elsewhere--in this version, they will become much like the the Harvard clubs, small and selective...
...Method, also to be used when driving cars or writing letters: learn to let the air out of the lungs in small proportions by momentarily tensing muscles around navel as each portion is exhaled...
...week. Cold morality embraced Havana cops, part of them holdovers from Batista, the rest recruited from rebel ranks. The government warned that they would go to jail if they used their badges to cadge so much as a soft drink from a grocery clerk, let alone shake down a chippy...
...expects to demand. Most steelmen, along with their customers, expect a strike. The automakers, trying to lay in enough steel for their 1959 models and part of their 1960 production, guaranteed their suppliers against loss if they in turn would buy ahead. But many a steel user who had let his inventories get close to bottom was discovering that it was hard to rebuild them enough for strike protection. Allowing for the probable rise in consumption, the maximum buildup in inventories by midyear was expected to be only about 6,000,000 tons, just about what would normally be needed...
...brisk start with Cliché No. 1: an Army outpost in the Arctic, in which 104 G.I.s sit stiff with boredom. Until Cliché No. 2, a gorgeous psychologist (Janet Leigh) of the WAC, recommends a policy of vicarious leave-send one man on a perfect furlough and let the others enjoy themselves thinking about it. The scheme naturally produces Cliché No. 3, a shamelessly corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis), who wins the raffle and is shipped off to spend three weeks in Cliché No. 4, Paris, with Cliché No. 5, a South American screen queen (Linda Cristal...