Word: moving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tallent and Kosseff, the manna-mad citizens of Cabazon soon voted to incorporate their town. The specific purpose of the move was to establish a drive-in draw-poker palace; under California law, only incorporated towns may establish poker parlors. In as Cabazon's mayor went L. D. Tallent-and before long he was also police commissioner, fire commissioner and civil defense commissioner (Kosseff, his usefulness fulfilled, soon sloped back toward Hollywood, later died...
...scant year since taking office, hard-driving Premier Phoui Sananikone. 55, has reversed this tide. Publicly lining Laos up "on the side of the free world," Phoui (pronounced Pwee) cleansed his government of Communists and successfully "integrated" the army, i.e., interned one of the rebel units-a move that sent the other fleeing toward Communist North Viet Nam. He made it clear that he no longer wanted any part of the three-power (Poland, India, Canada) international control commission established by the 1954 Geneva agreement, for while the Canadians sat around frustrated, the Reds used the Poles to keep close...
...kids by the hour, admonishing the unruly to say thank you. During the season, he lives quietly in a furnished home on Cleveland's west side with his pretty, dark-haired wife Carmen, 23. and their two children, Rocco, 3, and Marisa, 15 months. In the winter they move back to their home in Temple, Pa., where Rocky met Carmen in 1953 while playing with nearby Reading. There they keep a jewelry box full of religious medals that fans have sent to Rocky, a Roman Catholic, during his periodic slumps...
...dark, curly-cropped singer, that was the ultimate compliment. Yet the veteran of the small-time hotel and clubroom circuit has been around too long to toy with complacency. Edging into her late 30s, she wants desperately to move her career uptown to the Broadway stage. "I'd like dramatic singing parts," says she. "I'd like to do a show that has just one great song...
...Samuel Maurice McAshan Jr., 54, moved up from vice president to president of the world's biggest cotton dealer, Anderson, Clayton & Co. of Houston, replacing Harmon Whittington, who retired under pressure at 59. McAshan, an Anderson, Clayton regular since he left Princeton ('27), is described by Founder Will Clayton, his father-in-law, as having "the quickest mind and greatest curiosity of anyone I've encountered." The shift marks a return to power of courtly, fiercely competitive Will Clayton, 79, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, who retired as chairman of Anderson, Clayton in 1950-only...