Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House early last week went a secret letter addressed to Nikita Khrushchev. In the most dramatic, though private, Western move since the foreign ministers' conference began. President Eisenhower made a last-ditch personal attempt to break the stalemate in Geneva...
...second plan was more radical: to move Pakistan's capital from hot, humid, and filthy Karachi to a cool, high (elevation: 5,264 ft.) valley surrounded by a crescent of hills on the Potwar plateau some 700 miles to the north. Uncomfortably sitting on the steaming Arabian Sea with only parched desert behind it, Karachi since 1947 has mushroomed in population from 350,000 to an overcrowded 2,000,000. Government offices are spotted awkwardly in rented space across the sprawling city; water supply is at best uncertain over 60 miles of sand; and in the ill-favored climate...
...girls are a cross between the English and French, but they're prettier than either." ¶England-"The girls just aren't very sexy. The shows are all in private clubs, and they're uninhibited. But the girls have little expression, and they don't move too well." ¶France-"A Parisian girl can be sexy just holding a glass. Strippers work as many as four clubs a night. They travel between joints like the Club Sexy and the Club Blushing, carrying their little bags like doctors...
...SHIRT PRICES will be boosted about 6% next month by Manhattan Shirt Co. on big-volume, $4 shirts. Other major makers are expected to follow move in industry's first major price boost on brand-name, medium-priced dress shirts since...
...realizes that a producer must have markets to remain strong. Says a Keck aide: "It has simply become too difficult to do business. Without refinery facilities, we have no import quotas of our own and are entirely at the mercy of the majors. When they want our oil, we move it. When they don't, it sits there. The sale to Texaco, which has tremendous refining capacity, was a natural...