Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safety. Just after midnight one day last week, El Khoury quit. At El Khoury's insistence, General Shehab became caretaker President and Premier. No Naguib, he made it clear that he does not want to stay in office. This week Lebanon's Chamber of Deputies will pick a new President. In the President's palace the Father of Belly spent the weekend packing, while old friends, remembering his glorious days, streamed in to say goodbye...
Joseph Stalin's followers (and sometimes his enemies) hang on his every word as the pronouncement of a major oracle. Last summer Italy's fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni went to Moscow to pick up his Stalin Peace Prize (worth $25,000), and got one of the rare invitations to talk with the oracle himself. On his return, Nenni glowingly reported that Stalin wants only peace, and that if Russia is allowed to keep what she took after World War II, Stalin will be satisfied...
...Camel has paid Hawk approximately $2,000,000 over the past ten years. Bob says he is always careful to treat contestants on the Bob Hawk Show (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS), broadcast from Hollywood, with "real consideration. We never let contestants think we are laughing at them. We always pick out a third party, like a husband, and laugh about...
East. Princeton and Penn are the pick of the Ivy League. Gone is the 1951 Tiger backfield, but standout Linemen Frank McPhee and Brad Glass are still around, and replacements look promising. Princeton's chances for another undefeated season depend on how close the quarterback hopefuls come to filling Dick Kazmaier's shoes. Penn, with many of 1951's regulars on hand, will have an edge on Princeton in experience and reserves. Navy should better its poor 1951 record. So should Army...
...Platoon. Last week it looked as if rven Lew Rosenstiel thought it time for a pick-me-up. At 61, he stepped out as president of Schenley (but stayed as chairman), and elevated a whole platoon of young Schenley reserves. Into the presidency went Ralph Taft Heymsfeld, 44, a Columbia-trained lawyer who joined the company 18 years ago and has specialized, as secretary and counsel, in fighting for fair trade and against high liquor taxes. Up to executive vice president stepped Treasurer Sidney Becker, 42, who started with Schenley during Prohibition...