Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollar-short British Treasury limited British travelers to $28 a year for all expenses in the U.S. and Canada, beyond the steamship or plane tickets they could purchase with sterling. Last week, recognizing that restrictions "have erected an unnatural barrier between the English-speaking peoples," Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft increased travelers' allowances to ?100 (U.S. $280) a year in dollars in the U.S. and Canada, and increased businessmen's expense allowances...
...West Germany's 19th Airborne Battalion marched through heavy spring rains one morning last week to the bank of the deceptively calm Iller River, just outside the Swabian city of Kempten. Commanding the platoon was a tough but well-liked Stabsoberjäger (staff sergeant) named Peter Julitz, 24. At the river's edge Platoon Leader Julitz made a quick decision: "We're going to ford the river," he told his men. "In battle, the bridge might be out, and we'd have to be able...
...only the shows it originally did on film, all of them poor. The one CBS experiment will be Monday night's Studio One Summer Theater, a sort of summer-stock version of the regular Studio One, returning live shows with new acting and directing talent. Low-key Comic Peter Lind Hayes will pinch-hit for Godfrey on Talent Scouts, and last summer's hot-pop Baritone Vic ("Da Moan") Damone returns with his caramel-whip tunes for a live hour in Godfrey's Wednesday-night spot. Fred Waring replaces Garry Moore's morning show; more Ford...
Born. To Hal March (real name: Harold Mendelson), 36, TV quizmaster ($64,000 Question), and Candy Toxton, 31, onetime model: a boy, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Peter Lindsay. Weight...
Married. Princess Margarita of Baden, 24, blue-eyed niece of Britain's Prince Philip, and Prince Tomislav, 29, now working as a fruit farmer; younger brother of ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia; at Schloss Salem, Baden, Germany...