Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tracked down through the Smithsonian Institution by White House aides, who secretly installed it at Gettysburg. Upstairs are six bedrooms and a studio in which Ike can paint as he looks out over the Blue Ridge. His other hobbies are served by a new putting green and a pond freshly stocked with bass...
...Ladder. Next on Silberstein's list in 1953 was Industrial Brownhoist Corp., a Michigan industrial-machinery maker which had more than $1,000,000 in cash reserves. The following year, Silberstein used Penn-Texas capital to buy up 51% of the stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed...
...hear. Hardly a single routine shot of rolling countrysides deaden the 20 minutes running time. Morgan and his associate Richard Harris have concentrated on details: a few chickens shaking the water of a rainstorm form their feathers, the closeup of a ringing church bell, a frog in a pond. And then there are the people of Auvergne themselves, their faces caught haggling over the price of a bill at the fair and their hands weighing out fish in a market-place. Although Songs of the Auvergne is photographed only in black and white, the camera-work in it is unusually...
...picture offers one spiffy spoof of the '205, a Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note of prosperous disillusion. "There won't ever be no patter of little feet in my house," drones one pickled tomato, "unless I want to rent some mice." Best of all, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee sing real well, and pretty often...
...roughed it in previous years, Host Nielsen had built a comfortable new prefabricated rambler with an ultramodern electric kitchen calculated to delight an old K.P. like Ike. St. Louis Creek had been deepened in spots for better fishing, and freshly stocked with trout, and a new, one-acre pond near the house was leaping with 412 hungry rainbow trout which Nielsen had thoughtfully dumped in a week before at a cost...