Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists' (105 seats in the National Asisembly) refusal to join his government. Mendès now concedes that in his first days as Premier he moved too fast, and did not lay proper groundwork for Socialist cooperation. The issues that attracted them (IndoChina, North Africa, EDC) are now disposed of; some of his proposed economic reforms may prove pure hemlock to the Socialists...
...Echelon Job. Producer-Director Fielder Cook gave Patterns just the proper elaboration of office gossip, politics and detail and, as often happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...
...accepted as a member in the local P.T.A., 2) rented the Milford American Legion hall for a public meeting, 3) launched a fund-raising drive for the N.A.A.W.P., and 4) began collecting signatures for a petition to oust three officials who have not been displaying the proper N.A.A.W.P. attitude: State Superintendent of Public Instruction George R. Miller Jr., Milford Superintendent Ramon C. Cobbs and M. A. Glasmire, principal of the Milford high school...
Ever since Sir Laurence Oliver delighted critics with Henry V in 1946, discussions of the best ways of adapting Shakespeare to the screen have filled the nation's reviewing columns. But no agreement has been forth-coming on what should be the proper compromise between the author's original intentions and the alternate treatment made possible, if not mandatory, by modern movie techniques. Those who advocate pure Shakesperean theatre will be able to find many flaws in Director Renato Castellani's new production of Romco and Juliet; those who are willing to accept the more or less necessary changes imposed...
Last week desperate Agriculture Minister Giuseppe Medici conferred with Premier Mario Scelba, ordered a new bill drafted, promised that the decimal point would be put in its proper place...