Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novel No. 2, The Sixth Heaven, Eustace has turned into a pet of the Oxford esthetes. He has still not made it to the Stately Home set, but this social beatification is only a matter of time. Sister Hilda and he are invited to Anchorstone Hall, ancestral padded seat of the Staveleys, a proud family said to have their coat of arms embroidered even on the bath mats. Dashing Dick Staveley, M.P., is the very man who used to knock down Eustace's sand castles. Now he falls in love with Hilda, and takes her up in his private...
...Teacher's Pet (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount...
Alaska's biggest business is fishing (1957 take: $93 million), which is controlled by Seattle packers, supervised by an absentee government-and this outside control is the pet hate of Alaska statehooders. They claim that it weakens the Alaskan labor market by bringing in outsiders for half its 25,000 seasonal work force, and more important, severely depletes stocks by the use of fish traps. As it is, the industry is slipping (8,000,000 cases packed in 1936 v. 2,500,000 in 1957), and the sagging market makes it all the more imperative that the new state...
Unfortunately, there is also another film at the Ken-more. It plods along in color, wasting one or two good actors and proudly showing off a disastrously untalented buxom blonde. The director seems confident that anything to do with a pet alligator in England is uproarious, and that the perfect ending for a film is a car filled by boy, girl, boy alligator, girl alligator, and nauseating love song, wafting along the long driveway of a gigantic mansion. It is embarrassing...
Last week the leaders of seven captive East European countries were summoned to the Kremlin for a big socialist camp meeting. In a general tightening-up to mesh satellite economies into Russia's forthcoming revised seven-year plan. Eastern European countries were directed to drop pet national industrial projects and produce what they can produce best. For the first time Soviet-bloc economic integration was extended to Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet...