Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron. "It was the essence of nostalgia.") Next came Sweet Betsy from Pike, by Manhattan's Mark Bucci, a horsy mock-western. The bill closed with The Pot of Fat, by Massachusetts' Theodore Chanler, a Grimm parable about a cat and mouse who married and then found out about their incompatibilities. The crowd clapped the company to the rafters...
...raucous weeks, Italy's top TV show, Lascia o Raddoppia (Double or Quits'), which is frankly modeled after the $64,000 Question, rocked the nation. Tempest in the TV pot was balloon-bosomed Maria Luisa Garoppa, 23, a tobacco shopkeeper from northern Italy whose knowledge of Greek drama is only surpassed by her unusual measurements...
Still taboo: all speculation that the Red army is nudging into power, reports of the public pot-tossing and private lives of the Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating...
...Many Croutons? In Malibu, Calif., arrested in the fashionable Holiday House restaurant after pulling a knife on Chef Carlos Hernandez, slashing the wrist of a dishwasher, hurling a pot of hot coffee that struck a second dishwasher, Waiter John C. Burton explained to police that he was upset over the way Hernandez was mixing a Caesar salad...
...melting pot has never known anything like the Puerto Rican. For one thing, he is a U.S. citizen by birth, though he may never get to know more than a word or two of English. He steps out of a plane at Idlewild with but a seven-hour journey behind him, and he can be back among his wooden shacks again next month or next day, if he has the $57.75 plane fare. In 1953, for example, 289,000 Puerto Ricans left their island and 213,000 were back within the same year...