Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found we couldn't afford that luxury. What we needed was action, not conversation." They split management duties down the middle, isolated themselves from each other except for a Monday dinner, at which they make all corporate decisions. Says Klaus: "Ken Reiner's the brains of this outfit. As for me, I figure if you don't have brains, there's only one thing left-make money...
Trujillo numbers 23,000 well-armed troops under his banners, plus 4,500 police and 1,000 mounted landowners who patrol the hills in pairs and call themselves the "Horsemen of the East." On paper, another outfit called the "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion" has 100,000 bureaucrats, ex-soldiers and foreign mercenaries, including a few veterans of the Spanish Blue Division. The legion drills weekly on a Ciudad Trujillo fairground in trim new uniforms, could probably muster 16,000 with arms. Though the dictator's vast bureaucracy and army are shot through with men who secretly oppose him, these...
Giving His All. The outfit that cooked up The Four Seasons' blend of slick spectacle and lofty cuisine is Restaurant Associates Inc., a fast-rising restaurant group that specializes in putting showmanship and science into the eating business. R.A. says it carried out close to three years of "depth research" in preparing The Four Seasons. President Jerome Brody, 36, and a squad of top executives swung through Europe, the Far East, Polynesia, dipping their manicured fingers into the pots of the world's better restaurants. Bagel-waisted Vice President Joseph Baum, 38, gave his all to the cause...
...changing the scene to Herne's oak for the masque finale is highly ingenious. In fact, never before, it seems, has the Festival stage been employed by the directors with such virtuosity and flexibility. Much humor derives from the outlandish costumes designed by Motley. Mistress Ford wears an outfit of incompatible orange and mauve; and when it is side by side with Mistress Page's fuchsia one, the combination is an awful eyesore. Slender wears a pink doublet, amber hat, and ridiculous flowered chintz trousers...
...displacement, 37 tons) could do serious scientific work was useful to Professor Bigelow, who was writing a report on oceanography for the National Academy of Sciences. Relieved to find that very large yearly sums for big vessels were not necessary, the Rockefeller Foundation gave Bigelow $3,000,000 to outfit and endow an oceanographic institute. Bigelow set up his institute in Woods Hole-a small town on a narrow strait ("The Hole") connecting Buzzards Bay with Vineyard Sound. The ocean is always a presence there, flowing around the town and through its small, snug harbors. Grey fog often drifts through...