Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long been a congressional cuss word, Jerry Persons was a longtime congressional favorite. Where Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons began opening the door. "This place is becoming a madhouse,'' said one White House staffer-but the result was to let the warm personality of Dwight Eisenhower take wider and greater effect on his influential visitors. Persons also began sending Republican Senators lists of all available patronage posts -and party morale took a quantum leap...
...Therapy. In the five years since Dienbienphu's fall, high-strung Tom Dooley gained international prominence. He was so appalled by the wretchedness of the 610,000 refugees who passed through his camp that a physician friend advised him to act out his hostilities on a typewriter. The result was Deliver Us from Evil, a 1955 bestseller...
...fact that Lata does not appear on the screen never bothers her fans. Nor does it trouble them that the studio mixers, who build up her voice electronically to help it ride over the orchestra, rarely manage to synchronize her song with the "singer" on the screen. The offbeat result helps the audience identify Lata. And in Indian movies (TIME, Jan. 5)-three-hour, syrupy soap operas relieved by interludes of pop music-the audience likes to know who is actually carrying the tune. With Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites in any one of twelve Indian dialects...
...kill a bill giving the President authority to raise the interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds above the present 4½. This will force the Government to do more of its financing through short-term borrowing (under five years), on which there is no interest ceiling. Result: the Treasury will have to compete with consumers and small businessmen for short-term funds, thus placing pressure on fhe money market, forcing up short-term interest rates...
...Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories of the '205 but achieved some later notable successes. It was Theresa Helburn who sent the script of Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs to Composer Richard Rodgers and suggested it might make a' good musical. Result: Oklahoma...