Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inhuman to have to sing about love, always love, with a heart completely empty, and so many memories," crooned France-Soir. But between the white silences, Edith Piaf insists that she intends to live a little longer with those memories. She promises to appear in Marseille next month, in Paris in February...
...Angeles' American Hospital Management Corp., prodded him into doing something about it. Said the dentist: "Why don't you get us a dental hospital in Los Angeles? Then a whole job like this could be done in two hours, and we'd both live longer...
...Frenchmen took special pride in paying off $200 million on a debt to the International Monetary Fund ahead of schedule, piled up their first trade surplus with the U.S. in 60 years, and grew so confident that one Belgian banker remarked: "The French no longer have an inferiority complex growing out of their defeat in the war and their economic troubles. In fact, they have just the opposite...
...Motorola President Robert Calvin afraid of losing the U.S. lead in electronics. "The foreign competitor who has finally found out how to make a TV set will no longer find a market here, because we've already found out how-to hang one on a wall," says Galvin, whose sales are $260 million, best ever. Another sign that quality can be sold: Paris' George V Hotel stocks a claret that bears the label, "Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley, Calif...
Soda Pop & Slocks. "The poor working class no longer exists in England today," says Donald Tyerman, editor of London's Economist. The so-called proletariat that was the bulwark of socialism and Communism is giving way to an immensely enlarged middle class, intent on acquiring all the trappings of affluence. One excellent measure is autos. U.S. Businessman Arthur Watson, boss of IBM World Trade Corp., found the change astounding. Eleven years ago the manager of IBM's big plant at Essonnes, France asked Watson for permission to build a shed to house the workers' bicycles; two years...