Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejoice that "Operation Bootstrap" has been so successful, but let us not deny that Puerto Rico is a poor boy hitching a free ride in Uncle Sam's limousine. Some rich boys are also riding free-namely the U.S. corporations there. If freedom from income tax is so beneficial to Puerto Rico, by all means let us all enjoy it and extend it to our other possessions...
...Doubtful Reader" was referring to the unusual Vatican annulment of the President's first marriage, which let him marry Lima Socialite Clorinda Málaga a fortnight ago (TIME, June 30). In a country famed for its firmness in the Catholic faith, the second marriage stirred a storm -the noisier because the citizens were not told the ground for the annulment...
...London party to launch a charity benefit for an actors-sponsored orphanage, Sir Laurence Olivier showed up with the ginger-tinted beard and undipped hair he let grow for his film version of Macbeth. His role: at the "Night of 100 Stars" revue July 24, Sir Laurence (in top hat, white tie and tails), with wife Vivien Leigh and Cinemactor John Mills, will trip onstage for a buck and wing...
...camera before she could make her sales pitch, was notified within minutes that Philco had canceled sponsorship of the show. In a rage, Oscar launched into an on-the-air assault on Philco, urged his audience not to buy Philco until the company returned to his program. "Let's fight the power game with the power game," he cried. "I don't need Philco-who needs Philco...
...transcendentalist, Thoreau saw spirit at the heart of matter. But he was never so genteel as to gag at reality. "Let a man reserve a good appetite for his peck of dirt," he wrote, "and expect his chief wealth in unwashed diamonds." At 23, Thoreau was already grappling with the central dilemma of his life, how to know himself and be himself under the raised eyebrow of conformist society: "It is always easy to infringe the law-but the Bedouins of the desert find it impossible to resist public opinion...