Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave it," Vag said. "It's a book about Harvard and it's very good. Let someone else read it. Besides, you never can tell. I may be back...
Downstairs the teletype machine was going, though there was no paper the next day and no one to read it. Nothing ever changes, Vag thought, and left...
...popular image of the off-duty, semicomic, garrulous Khrushchev tippling his way through diplomatic receptions. This was Khrushchev during office hours, not only sober but sobering: a tough, shrewd, vigorous man with the air of confident command. In sharp contrast to China's Chou Enlai, who cautiously read his answers to selected written questions on See It Now (TIME, Jan. 7), Khrushchev played by U.S. ground rules, asked in advance only for what fields the questions would cover. Producer Ted Ayers replied so broadly that he left a free hand to his panel, Moderator Stuart Novins and Moscow Correspondents...
...read the luncheon menu at one of Manhattan's newest and biggest restaurants last week. Price of the meal: 97?. Owner of the restaurant: Socony Mobil Oil Co., which installed a cafeteria and seven dining rooms in its Manhattan headquarters to give 2,400 employees bargain food at a sizable loss to itself every month. Operated by the Brass Rail Restaurant (on a cost-plus fee basis), the dining rooms are graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music...
Unabashed at being caught with shears in hand by its leading competitor, the Express next day awarded the prize to a Mrs. Anne Reid, who had apparently not read the Mirror lately. Her entry: "Read Any Good Thermometers Lately...