Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambassador Bonsai has found himself in a diplomatic vacuum, unable to get in even once to present his views to Castro. Last week, his own patience gone, Bonsai finally forced a meeting with Castro by announcing that he was off to Washington next week for what the State Department called "more than routine consultations," i.e., to work out a stiff new U.S. policy on Cuba during a pointedly long absence from Havana...
...philosophy of the U.S. presidency: the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. "I'm doing it for Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin to help "pull the Kansas City Philharmonic out of debt." As for the present show: "We want to keep it dignified," said Benny. "And we are," said Truman. "I'll kill myself if it isn't," said Benny. "All right," Truman punch-lined, "I've got an undertaker friend...
...this week, under tough-talking, tough-acting Herb Mayes, 59, who took over as editor two weeks after he was fired from the same job in Hearst's Good Housekeeping, McCall's was again just one big happy family-particularly because on the basis of present progress. McCall's plans to up its guaranteed circulation to a record 5,500,000 next February...
Personal Finance. A key sign of better living standards is the steady rise in consumer spending, which has jumped $20 billion in the last year to its present record of $311 billion; consumer durable goods alone account for $44 billion. By next spring, consumer buying is expected to top $325 billion annually-as much as the total gross national product a decade ago. To spur the rise, personal income, up $20.6 billion in the past year, is expected to jump almost $20 billion in the next twelve months...
High-Speed Film. A still-camera film 15 times faster than its present film was put on sale by the Polaroid Corp. for use with Polaroid Land cameras, which take, develop and print photos in 60 seconds. With a low-cost ($17.95) "wink light" that fills in background shadows and replaces flashbulbs, the new film takes pictures in table-lamp light. Cost: $1.79 per eight-exposure roll...