Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their dollars by leaning heavily on private business to contribute products, exhibits and top executives to the trade missions at the fairs. They have also learned that commonplace U.S. gadgets are often the most effective crowd pleasers. At Zagreb, Yugoslav children were entranced by a machine that transformed powdered milk into ice cream. Says Portland, Ore. Businessman M. J. Edwards, a member of the mission to Zagreb: "You could not buy such good will with 50 times the amount of our investment in that fair...
...disadvantage of inexperience, is drastically miscast. Shaw's Joan is a chunk of hard brown bread, dipped in the red wine of battle and devoured by ravenous angels. Actress Seberg, by physique and disposition, is the sort of honey bun that drugstore desperadoes like to nibble with their milk shakes...
Personality & Private Life: Sternly handsome, imposing in stature, personally charming, with pale blue eyes and a face that cartoonists can catch in a few lines. Approaches tasks with fierce vigor. Wears country lawyer suits, prefers milk to martinis. After death of first wife in 1951. married attractive, capable Olive Freeman Palmer. A thunderous, fire-snorting orator, during the campaign he spoke with evangelistic fervor even when there were no more than a dozen people listening. Major interests: work, an occasional fishing trip alone, and the Baptist Church, in which he is a leading layman...
...British colonial plantation owners. Their self-seeking messiah (played like a talking totem pole by Singer Harry Belafonte) is trying to improve their lot by shaking hands with all of them, sullenly muttering into his champagne at white folks' garden parties, making louder speeches over coconut milk about his dedication to equality and self-government. Belafonte's biggest job, however, is evading the clutches of a white cargo named Mavis (Joan Fontaine), obviously...
Just Curious. In Veracruz, Mexico, after retailers were found to be selling 35,000 liters of milk a day - 10,000 more than they get from all the cows in the Veracruz milkshed - a Dairymen's Association spokesman stated: "We don't want to accuse anyone of watering the milk, but we think the situation merits investigation...