Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main walls, it seems, rest not on solid foundations, but on shifting dirt. Its timbers are rotting, the Cabinet room is hazardous, some floors are so weak that the number of guests invited to receptions have had to be cut. What No. 10 needs, said the White Paper, is nothing less than a complete "structural overhaul" at a cost of at least ?400,000 ($1,120,000). Once again sensible men could say that the most economical course would be to tear the whole place down. But as usual, even sensible men will agree in the end that London would...
...that one"), gave his butler's services as a prize on a U.S. TV show, even invited Marilyn Monroe to spend a night in the bed used by Charles I. His unabashed huckstering paid off. In 1955 an imposing 199,647 visitors went to Woburn. Last year the number...
...years ago, seemed the same slat-nosed, perpetual lad with the innocent leer. Playing Huckleberry Haines, the matchmaking student bandleader of Alpha Beta Pi, in the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball." For its 40th season, the famed old Muny, heavily challenged by TV, had turned to the star system-and with hopeful results: more than...
...British Army centers of 80 years ago are now more than 20,000 in 86 countries, and the original band of 57 evangelists is now an army of more than 27,000 fulltime officers with hundreds of thousands of "soldiers" and local officers (the women's groups number 300,000). By the time the meeting closed (with a festive tea), the commissioners were confident that a new Army was on its way. Among decisions taken...
...Went Hathaway. In San Pedro, Calif., two days after her house was looted, Mrs. Henrietta Cheatham pulled up at a stop sign, recognized her husband's shirt on the driver of the car beside her, noted the license number, later told police how to locate long-sought Burglar George Brotsis...