Word: overnighters
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...Randolph will have to grin and bear it. This week Wilkinson stock goes on sale on the London Exchange for the first time -and the value of the shares retained by Randolph and other members of the family-owned company will make them all millionaires overnight. To the owners of 192-year-old Wilkinson, this is only the latest indignity heaped upon them as a result of the firm's success with the stainless steel razor blade - the edge that has touched off bitter competition in the U.S. and Europe for a new and promising market...
...this rooting interest been developed by the government and instilled by the press. It was a slow process by which the U.S. came to share with the Russians a desire to stabilize the present division of power and influence, and now the reversal of alliances cannot be effected overnight. Thus the mass media had to show tact in taking for truth the pronouncements of men like Mikhail Suslov, once branded as liars. Unable to bring themselves to a specific espousal of the Khrushchev cause, the media have achieved their goal by simply presenting the Khrushchev version of what the dispute...
...example: The America touches Cobh, Le Havre, Southhampton, and then overnight in Bremerhaven. The first time I shipped, I drove an elevator on the America, and when we hit Le Havre I was off with the first. It was three A.M. We had five hours before sailing. Everyone stormed into town, heading for Suzanne's, the combination bar and whore-house en face de la gare. Down the block is its rival, the Algiers Bar, open to Algerians only. The French government rules all such places closed until five in the morning, but the metal slats were kept down, while...
...rules issue than other colleges, she said, claiming that this question has been "over-discussed." Since Radcliffe has so recently faced "the matter of students taking adult responsibility," she feels it is too early to form an opinion on the recent rules change allowing sophomores to sign out overnight without permission...
William Holden plays a hard-drinking hack screenwriter, given exactly 48 hours to hatch a movie script. He is assisted by Audrey Hepburn, the loveliest little stenographer a hack ever had, who reports to his Paris hotel suite with an overnight bag full of Givenchy originals. While falling in love on the job, Hepburn and Holden imagine themselves to be the hero and heroine of a movie within a movie: a master criminal steals the print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George...