Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lance Reventlow, a handsome, mop-headed youth of 22, was born to money and scheduled for regular space in the Sunday supplements. The son of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow of Denmark, young Lance was the pawn in one of the longest and bitterest custody fights in café society history. During the course of his tumultuously abnormal upbringing, he seemed destined to develop a taste for high life and supercharged women. Instead, he devoted his energies to fast cars. While other rich young men danced and drank the night through, Lance got his regular eleven...
...shut down car production at Chrysler last week. Beginning with a walkout of 400 workers at the main Dodge plant, the stoppage soon idled 41,440 workers as parts shortages halted production in the major Chrysler plants. The relief period of five minutes an hour (in addition to regular relief periods) was first arranged because of special fatigue problems, such as extraordinary heat, though the company claimed that technological improvements later eliminated the problems. So that no actual output would be lost, the United Auto Workers agreed to speed up the line. But in its belt tightening this year, Chrysler...
...Down to Sleep. The heroine (Bergman) is a London parlormaid who announces one day to her employer that "God wants me to go to China." The man is so startled that he lets himself be persuaded to help her get there, even though the regular missionary organizations have rejected her as "not qualified"-she has had very little formal education...
...extra cars will be added to the regular holiday runs of the New Haven Railroad even in the event of a strike or worse weather conditions. A representative admitted "the situation is terrible" and could become a "holocaust" if traffic is diverted from the airlines to the N.Y.N.H. & H. R.R. He claimed costs and equipment do not allow an increase in cars even if desperately needed...
...alumnus cannot offer more to a football player than he can to a regular candidate, since all admissions and scholarship decisions are made in University Hall. If "alumni recruiting" has had any major effect, it has been to interest the alumnus in all types of candidates and to stimulate scholarship fund-raising activity in the Harvard Clubs...