Word: res
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Res Rockets...
Others have prospered along with Lee, and the Hong Kong garment industry to day has estimated assets worth $200 million. Exports to the U.S. (chiefly brassières, nightgowns, pajamas, blouses and men's slacks and shirts) are expected to be more than $80 million this year, a 140% increase over last year. Though still less than 3% of total U.S. consumption, it is the concentration of items in particular areas that has most aroused U.S. industry and labor opposition. In the field of brassieres alone, Hong Kong imports account for an estimated 40% of the U.S. market...
...July 26 Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Operation Noah's Ark - the res cue of African game along the rising Zambezi River...
...Commonwealth" has nothing to do with sharing riches. The word took root in Renaissance Europe as an equivalent for the old Roman res publica, i.e., the public good or the common weal. Oliver Cromwell's dictatorship in England (1649-53), after the execution of King Charles I, was therefore dubbed "the Commonwealth." The U.S. colonies liked the self-governing implications of the word, and several states (e.g., the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) still bear the name. As early as 1852, British officials were employing commonwealth as a euphemistic name for empire. It has now grown to mean...
Died. André de Fouquieres, 83, Parisian arbiter of elegance; in Paris. Author of such tastemaking volumes as Modern Courtesy, Of Art and Elegance in Charity and Fifty Years of Panache, M. de Fouquières was the city's guide to de rigueur. Unimpeachably masculine (Croix de guerre with citations), he told the dandies of Paris to wear gloves and keep their cigarette-lighter wicks trimmed as acts of thoughtfulness to their ladies. "We must defend Paris," he said, "against the hatless." With full dress there could be no compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal...