Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated, he waited until he was 33 to take his first fling at running for the legislative assembly, then lost. There was little losing after that. Duplessis represented Trois Rivieres in the assembly from 1927 until his death last week. He was Quebec's premier for five terms, longer than any other...
...made it stick. "I'd rather shoot myself," he says, "than take any guff off the business side." From Good Housekeeping he brought with him a smooth team, including Managing Editor Margaret Cousins. Then Mayes began thinning out McCall's syrupy "togetherness" campaign; the "togetherness" legend no longer appears on McCall's covers. On taking over, he coolly dumped $400,000 worth of stories and articles because they were too dull, began spending $150,000 a month on new editorial material by top writers and personalities (e.g., Phyllis McGinley, Moss Hart), v. $82,000 a month under...
...competition for available funds has been intensified by the crisis in Treasury borrowing. Since the Treasury, restricted by the 4¼% interest-rate ceiling on long-term bonds, can no longer sell such securities, it has had to compete against consumers and small business for available funds in the short-term market. Last week the Treasury's borrowing costs for short-term money rose to 3.979%, up from the 3.889% paid four days earlier, and the highest since the 4.25% paid during the bank holiday...
...numbers not names made the season what it was, jamming the beaches, the bistros, the boulevards. Among the regulars, a social historian might have noted an evolutionary decline in the Riviera male. His feet are no longer used for walking, but only to depress accelerators or shuffle through the cha cha cha. Long hours spent in low sports cars seemed to have given him a spinal slump. His flaccid hands may seem barely strong enough to steady a highball glass or stifle a yawn...
...foreigners have seen Bukhara. But its neighboring ancient cities on the vast Central Asian steppes seem to have learned their lesson. In the bustling streets of modern Tashkent and the redolent, mud-walled courtyards of Samarkand (pop. 170,000), short, moonfaced Uzbeks with golden skin and embroidered skullcaps no longer call the Russians hated koperlar (infidels). The commissars have done their work well. This summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded with satisfying peeks...