Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This bit of pastoral reporting marked a considerable change of pace for a TIME correspondent whose stories usually originate from places such as Washington's Federal Reserve Building, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The author of the paragraph is George Bookman, business and economics reporter in TIME'S Washington office, who recently covered one of the capital's most pleasant news assignments: Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas' 178-mile hike along the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal...
...Eden (see below). The man most likely to succeed Eden as Foreign Secretary: Minister of Housing Harold Macmillan, 60, a suave, tough Scotsman who has proved one of the outstanding men of the Cabinet. Macmillan has been getting houses built at a rate of 300,000 a year-a pace that many had thought unattainable...
Within two years, Butler had results to show. Today Britain is flourishing. Production is at its highest level ever. Employment is at record levels. Prices have risen slowly, but wages have pretty well kept pace. Even the Laborite Daily Mirror concedes that Butler is an "outstanding success . . . the man who sets the Socialist opposition brooding." Attlee himself has declared that Butler is the only Tory who knows where he is going...
...Chairman George Vardaman of the general education division of Denver University's College of Business announced that he had a new sort of champion among his students: George Murch. who may well be the world's fastest reader. Murch's normal pace: 5,000 words a minute. Top speed: 8,000 words (or Gone With the Wind in an hour). The average reader's speed: 250 words a minute...
Miss Holliday and her two marquee running mates attempt to make up for what the plot lacks in coherence and pace. Playing a playboy with a turn for ear kissing, Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...