Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises a special diet for a low-calorie fee (sample: $37 for eight weeks' advice, plus $17 for the diet lists). Despite palace "No comments," Hollanders thought that De Cock might soon be paring a few more royal lines: at Juliana's side during the speech was Crown Princess Beatrix, hefty for her 20 years...
...Soviet Union, the omens read, sales would be low of the bestselling Inside Russia Today by Reporter John Gunther. One omen: a blistering review in the powerful Literary Gazette, official voice of the Soviet Writers' Union. Conceding that Gunther had some of his facts straight on Soviet industry and culture, the Gazette dismissed the latest Inside story as "ill-intentioned lies and malinformed assertion," containing analyses of Marxism and Soviet history that are "slanderous, libelous and inaccurate...
...does not want to take the profit for tax or other reasons sells 100 shares short. When he covers the short sale by delivering the stock in which he has a profit, he receives whatever the price was at the time of the short sale, no matter how low the price may meanwhile have dropped...
...that Reuther would give in came when Ford proposed a three-year agreement. Reuther raised no real objection, even though this key Ford demand had been flatly turned down for months. From then on, differences were quickly settled. The problem was to find enough high-sounding but low-cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room, as union stewards...
...niche in their operations for the well-known strip-teaser Sherry Britton. Though Miss Briton displays an agreeably athletic navel in some belly-dancing sequences, her presence in the cast is the final proof that the proprietors of this enterprise are not austerely high-minded. But a good low-minded farce has delights all its own, and Drink to Me Only may turn into a winner...