Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best proof, perhaps, of the old adage: "A good salesman can sell anything,'' is Robert Anderson Magowan, 55. A lean, fast-moving salesman's salesman, he ran one of the biggest sales departments for Macy's, the world's biggest store, became the star salesman of the biggest brokerage house; and now, as president and chairman of Safeway, the world's second biggest grocery chain, he has more than doubled the chain's profits in three years...
Flower Drum Song (music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; book by Mr. Hammerstein and Joseph Fields) proves to be thoroughly professional, has Miyoshi Umeki, Pat Suzuki and other nice performers, has some agreeable dancing, some gorgeous costumes, here proof of a jolly Rodgers and there of a dreamy one. As purely popular musical fare, the show should fare handsomely. But as Rodgers and Hammerstein, it not only lacks the talent of their top-drawer work, it seldom has the touch. Flower Drum Song is passably pleasant in its way, but its way is strictly routine...
...many cattlemen the proof of cattle quality is not in blue ribbons but in butchering. Last week 296 steers that had entered the judging rings live were rejudge in the cooler. Results: of 81 steers that took honors on the hoof, only 33 met the test as meat (chief disqualification: excessive fat, too little lean). The top carcass honors went to a lean-hipped 749-lb. Aberdeen-Angus, entered by Larry McKee, 17, of Varna, Ill., that had not won even an honorable mention in the ring...
...rdenas' successor, Manuel Avila Camacho, got Mexico's industrialization into full swing during World War II. To fight the war, the U.S. needed everything that Mexico produced-cotton, metals, ores. The railroads were antiquated and creaky, but at least they were submarine-proof. U.S. dollars tumbled in, exports rumbled out. Many rich ex-landowners built factories to produce the goods Mexico could no longer import...
DESERT LOVE, by Henry de Montherlant (203 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is convincing proof that the crudest hands a fictional Frenchman can fall into are those of a French novelist. Lucien Auligny is the creation of Author Montherlant (Perish in Their Pride, Pity for Women), who at his gentlest tells nothing less than the bitter truth and at his worst dismisses humanity with a sardonic jeer. Lucien is a lieutenant who commands an oasis outpost in French North Africa. He is not much of a man and not much of a soldier, and boring desert duty with a handful of French...