Word: richness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass banquets. Instead the delegates:-including U.S. Chief Delegate Thomas E. Dewey -will be treated to a drink or two at a pair of official receptions, an evening of symphony at the municipal theater, and the welcome sight of a hard-working friend of the U.S. taking over oil-rich Venezuela...
...second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...
...show business. Says bulb-nosed, cauliflower-eared Joseph ("Toots") Mondt, the 12-year veteran of the mat and now one of the most successful wrestlers' agents: "You don't see punch-drunk, slap-happy wrestlers. I know at least 60 of them that got out of it rich, and no more harm to 'em than cauliflower ears. This ain't like other sports...
Still, there are moments when the hard-digging moviemakers strike it fairly rich. There are a couple of good fights, and a lynching bee in which the many-legged mob moves with the terrifying instinctual coordination and single-mindlessness of a colossal millipede gone mad. Karl Maiden makes a memorably silly-sinister billy goat. Actress Schell, holding a hard rein on her sentimental excesses, gives a gracious, intelligent performance. And though Actor Cooper, when required to produce the piercingly analytic stare, can do no more than push out his chin and look as though he is about to whinny...
...father dies. The mother goes to work as a cook for a wealthy family. Not a bad life for her, but what about the boy? He spends his spare time cadging pennies by picking lice out of the rich man's hair. But then the rich man takes mother and son to his country estate, and for a while they are both very happy. Apu plays in the fields and studies to be a priest like his father-a matter that involves more folklore than book learning. Yet one day Apu comes home with a faraway look...