Word: peake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he asked if Nixon was the man to whom the U.S. wanted to entrust "the great decisions about the H-bomb." He challenged the Administration's handling of the Suez Canal crisis and the Middle East situation, asserting that Russia's influence there is at a peak, that "the rising fires of Arab nationalism" are a threat to world peace. And he won applause when he said that "Israel is not a cause to be cynically remembered by the Administration in late October" but is a "symbol of man's triumph over ... the attempt of Adolf...
...Peak. Last week, like a stormy throwback to another century. Maria Callas swept into New York. She arrived, as is proper for prima donnas, in triumph. Raised in Manhattan's upper west side, Maria Callas had left it as a fat, unhappy child of 14. She returned svelte, successful, the wife of an Italian millionaire, a diva more widely hated by her colleagues and more wildly acclaimed by her public than any other living singer. She returned to open the season next week in Bellini's Norma at the Metropolitan-which only eleven years ago just could...
Solid Cement. The building-materials industry was also a mixed bag. Despite peak sales, Johns-Manville reported a drop in third-quarter income to $6,967,861 v. $7,178,801 a year ago. But the cementmakers were up: Consolidated Cement netted $584,400 v. $465,200 a year ago; General Portland Cement earned $2,441,500 compared with $2,086,000; Penn Dixie Cement rose 23% over last year's third quarter...
...Small Business Administration to ease tight-money squeeze. S.B.A. now will allow its 15 regional directors-to approve credit up to $100,000 (v. $50,000 limit before), provided private banks put up 25% of the credit. Administration expects record 700 loan applications in October v. previous peak of 514 last June...
...bulbous, his mustache like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with a Galahad-pure flame of romance. Ashe chucks everything to pursue "the most beautiful woman in the world...