Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Soviet press launched a campaign against tipping in restaurants. "Restaurant employees," said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under...
...years, with nothing to show in new weapons, but including an unprecedented display of small sports cars. In the main speech of the day, Marshal Malinovsky saluted Khrushchev's call for disarmament, added that since it had not yet been accepted, the Soviet armed forces must "maintain a state of high preparedness...
...Treaty Writer. The causes are historical, emotional, economic and political. They go back to the turn of the century, when President Theodore Roosevelt became convinced that the U.S. must build a canal through the section of the isthmus then controlled by Colombia ("I do not think that the Bogotá lot of jack rabbits should be allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization"). Sounded out by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a Frenchman and chief engineer in Ferdinand de Lesseps' unsuccessful earlier attempt to build a Panama Canal. President Roosevelt gave tacit support to a Panamanian revolution...
...boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums and who, he thinks, is possessed of a dybbuk or evil spirit that must be exorcised. Amid prayer and prattle, amid the girl's infatuation for the young lawyer, the young lawyer's involvement with his analyst, the old rabbi's rapt communings with his God, the synagogue prepares for the exorcism ceremony. In the rather confusing midst of the ceremony...
...allow the medium to live up to its great promise. In defense, TV's top men could and did say that they have enormous problems, chief among them the vast and amorphous audience. Where a newspaper or magazine can address itself to one kind of audience, television must play...