Word: reds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warren? To last week's off-Broadway audience he was only a nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
...process takes about a week in either case. At the moment the bronze emerges from the cast, the sculptor generally attends, like an anxious father awaiting the birth of a son. The bronze comes out orange, blue, red, yellow or gold. But these colors, caused by the firing, rapidly fade. Besides the usual bronze color, the Susse secret acids can produce mordant greens, equatorial blues and glossy black...
...Owingses decided to call their new house "Wild Bird" because "we have the feeling of soaring in mid-air-airplanes often pass below the house, and red-tailed hawks are our constant visitors." Through binoculars they have seen mountain climbers tumble to the beach below, once had to call in some professional rock climbers to rescue Nat Owings' 16-year-old daughter Jennifer, who was caught at nightfall halfway up the cliff...
...result of its economic strength, many a European nation felt confident enough to lower some of its trade barriers and chop away red tape. The Common Market (West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) in its first year was such a resounding success that Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Denmark formed their own Outer Seven trading area to enjoy the benefits of mass markets and freer trade. Said a Common Market official in Brussels: "At the start, the politicians were for European unity, and the businessmen were very skeptical. But now it is the businessmen...
...cane sugar and wheat bread (he prefers rye or corn). He has also picked up some vague racial ideas-that Americans should eat the same types of diet as their European ancestors, whether Nordic, Alpine or Mediterranean. Thus Nordics are urged to "live out of the ocean," eschewing good red meat and chewing fish instead...