Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tacoma, Wash., after deliberating three hours, a grand jury indicted Beck for tax evasion. The jurors added a second indictment accusing him of helping prepare a fraudulent return for a building association operated by his Joint Teamster Council 28. Beck got the word in Washington, put on a pair of dark glasses, bounced into Federal Court to be fingerprinted, bounced out again on $5,000 bail. That done, he was off to Atlantic City to address 50 officers of the Teamsters' Eastern Conference. Said Dave: "If you find anyone who can do a better job than I have done...
...Texas legislature last week two senators turned the South's prime weapon against civil-rights legislation, the filibuster, to a novel use. Up from the lower house swept a rash of school segregation bills, and in an effort to stop them the protesting pair put on the longest filibuster in Texas history...
...World Trade Fair brought 3,000 displays and 43 national pavilions into the four floors of Manhattan's Coliseum. For a fort night buyers from the Americas looked over motor scooters from Italy and hi-fi equipment from Japan, inspected silks from Hong Kong and a pair of Queen Victoria's pantaloons exhibited by Britain's Lux-Lux, Ltd. (underwear), sampled coffee from Brazil and champagne from Israel. Last week, is the show closed, its private U.S. organizers tallied some of the handsome results...
...Cantinflas is consistently funny throughout as the valet, and shines particulary in a humorous interpretation of a bullfight. Shirley MacLaine plays the Indian princess, and the late Robert Newton makes his last screen appearance as a detective who pursues the travelers under the impression that he is chasing a pair of bank robbers. Todd has also somehow managed to get 44 stage and screen stars to play bit parts. They include such varied figures as Sir John Gielgud, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, and Jose Greco; and not the least attraction of the picture is identifying them as they appear...
Last week as Hathifah, swathed in costly clothes and jewels, embarked by ship with her protector for the bright lights of Hong Kong, the girl's grandfather, from his wooden hut outside Kuala Lumpur, revealed the news that the pair were married two weeks ago in a proxy ceremony lasting five minutes. The Sultan was irate that the news got out, and would not say which if any of his previous wives he had divorced in order to stay inside the Islamic maximum. But Grandpa felt he had to tell all; otherwise there would be talk about his granddaughter...