Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discuss other possible, hoped-for alternatives, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived in Washington this week, after a conference with France's Premier René Pleven. Attlee came to argue for some sort of deal with the Communists, a prospect that still seemed to Europeans to have some meaning...
...Treasury announced a new $8 billion issue of five-year notes at 1¼%, or ¼% higher than the rate on its last big long-term issue last August (TIME, Sept. 4). Since the rate on Government bonds largely determines what private interest rates will be, the prospect was that all borrowers would soon find themselves paying a little more for new loans...
...full-scale U.S. release, Oliver Twist was heading for exhibition in the neighboring and friendly state of Texas. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, announced that a first-run booking had been set for Jan. 19 in seven Texas cities (plus Albuquerque, N.M.). The prospect: moviegoers throughout the U.S. may eventually get a chance to see the picture...
...Yankee prison camp, took to bushwhacking over broad stretches of western scenery. Then came 20th Century-Fox's Two Flags West (Confederate prisoners of war sign up to fight Indians), Warner's Rocky Mountain (Errol Flynn tries to win the West for the South). Now in prospect are a dozen or so other films in which Civil War soldiers, guerrillas or ex-soldiers wind up one way or another between St. Louis and San Francisco...
...faculty committee added a whole new section giving special requirements to be fulfilled by the founders of a new publication, "including details as to financing, circulation, authorship, contents, and policy ..." The committee was obviously worried by the prospect of another "New Student" case. But the type of problem it is guarding against--an "unsavory" national group using a few men at Harvard to front for a ready-made magazine--is already covered by the rule which requires that a group "make all policy decisions without obligation to any parent organization." And the requirement that a proposed publication give details about...