Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unmarried mother (Kim Stanley) whose son returns fro'm reform school, shows raging jealousy toward her lover, and eventually becomes a murderer. Despite its grim outline, Inge can be counted on to have loaded the whole with rich marblings of mawkishness. Richardson can be counted on to melt the mawkishness away...
...private preserve of John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, he went poaching for big game and bagged two handsome specimens: Pundits Walter Lippmann. now under contract, and Joseph Alsop, who will sign up later this year. Adding insult to injury. Graham then suggested that Whitney melt the Trib's 14-man Washington bureau into Graham's huge squad of newsmen. That proved to be a serious mistake...
...until they have restored the B. & O. to financial health. The B. & O. needs quite a bit of shaping up. Weighed down by $418 million in debt and strapped for cash to carry out overdue modernization programs, the once mighty B. & O. has watched its revenues melt from $465 million in 1956 to $351 million in 1961, and seen its long string of profits turn into a 1961 loss of $31 million. By contrast, the go-ahead C. & O. earned a solid $35 million last year...
...Krock, never wittier or more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson-or somebody identified as "T. S-"-says, "You mean toss it in the well and see the kind of splash it makes; follow it into...
...Melting Copper. To save money, Khrushchev seemed ready to start a modern wave of iconoclasm: "You know how irrationally we use metal on various monuments to satisfy philistine tastes. We pay gold to buy copper abroad. If Lenin would rise up he would say: 'Our great cause is not ennobled by monuments.' Let us issue a call for removing copper where it is unnecessary, and let us melt it down for more important things...