Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traffic for blocks around, flashed the grin at supporters wearing buttons that proclaimed, "I Miss Ike." packed the Hollywood Palladium for a speech at the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet, and drew nearly 100 to hear him talk at a Republican fund-raising dinner-at $500 a plate...
East Germans show uncommon imagination in escaping Walter Ulbricht's Communist prison state.* A circus troupe, animals, merry-go-round and all, once drove across to the West as if it were en route to a carnival. One man reinforced the family car with armor plate, then crashed through the Wall with wife and friends as the Communist Volkspolizei fired vainly at them. An East German locomotive engineer opened the throttle and took his whole train to West Berlin. But until last week, no one had found a way of reaching freedom under the very feet of the Vopos...
Midsummer Night's Dream proved to be first-rate spectacle and only intermittently good dance. The sets, by Designer David Hays, were superb-particularly his stylized forest of plate-sized green leaves, spread in a gigantic canopy across the stage-and the costumes by Karinska were as opulent as any the City Ballet has ever displayed (the corps de ballet's wispy costumes cost $400 apiece; Oberon's gold lame tunic, $1,200). With a cast of nearly 100, most of the emphasis was inevitably on swirling group movements and splashy stage effects: clouds of smoke pouring...
...welcome. Her jaw drops. In the doorway stands a domestic disaster. The torso suggests a pup tent full of Jell-0, the hair looks like something dumped out of a vacuum cleaner, the chin resembles the business end of an ax, the eyes slide around like eggs on a plate, the tiny mouth might almost be a third nostril. The legs-it somehow comes as a surprise that there are only two of them-look like snaggled paper clips jabbed into erasers, and when they walk the blubber above them wobbles with a sly, sidewise, fidgety motion: the poor thing...
...GLASS. With imported sheet glass taking 32.5% of 1960 sales (v. 15.4% m 1955), Vice President Robinson F. Barker of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. says: "We see no real hope of sharing any growth in the U.S. market unless effective tariff re lief is granted...