Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father of the nuclear submarine was reacting again. Standing before Washington's National Press Club in a light grey business suit last week, the Navy's Vice Admiral Hyman George Rickover broke precedent by refusing to make a speech, instead fielded questions to get a few rancors away...
Gaudy old Galveston (pop. 75,000) has been a wide-open sin city and the gaudy shame of Texas since the days when Pirate Jean Lafitte made it his island playground. Prostitution flourishes in the houses of Post Office Street, one of the last unabashed red-light districts in the nation. After-hours gin mills and gambling joints thrive in defiance of Texas laws, under the tacit protection of kickback-hungry city officials. From time to time, ambitious reformers have made feeble efforts to clean up Galveston, but the town has always quickly returned to its wicked ways, partly because...
...great thickness of mattresses, thereby passes the test of royalty and may marry the prince. Mattress' bookmakers offer odds that there was more to this yam than met the eye of Hans Christian Andersen. Apart from the boob-catching title, their fanciful inside fairy story is a feather-light blend of innocent merriment and sophisticated bounce...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Correspondent David Brinkley, as light on his feet as he is on the ear, whips through the Middle East and several Mediterranean nations...
...starts off well enough; it is, at the beginning, an almost excellent satire of the social climber, given bite by the implication that the climber's position is not so much his own fault as that of society. And some of society's offenders appear more sharply in this light than they do in the book. The gruff nature of M. de Renal, for one, is brilliantly emphasized, providing a clear motive for Julien's well meditated social ascent. Then, too, the seduction scenes are fine stuff, exhibiting some well coordinated pussyfooting from bedroom to bedroom...