Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the bosom of the new Miss Universe, Japan's Akiko Kojima, is bolstered with interior plastics, declared that he had given shapely (37-23-38) Akiko injections just before she went to California. The doctor's statement drew a blushing denial from Akiko, got a stormy rise out of her mother. "Terrible! Terrible!" cried Mrs. Hisako Kojima. "How could she have had an operation? She's the same size as last year...
...full games from the top. But this year the Dodger veterans and kids have meshed to produce a balanced ball club. The Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than 95% of the games he has started...
...prayers began to rise last week around the 200-ft. steel cross in Konigsplatz, only about 1,000 East Germans were on hand. As a group they were beginning to look like a different kind of German. It was a difference that could be seen in little things-the nervous eagerness with which the director of the Reds' reception center greeted new arrivals, his small embarrassment at having to give them 30 marks' pocket money, the East Germans' skittishness at the approach of a Western newsman. Both East and West felt the urgency of the widening...
...responsible economist predicts a serious or sustained U.S. trade imbalance ahead. But no one foresees the big, fat trade surpluses that the U.S. long enjoyed -$6.5 billion as recently as 1957. At best, says Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, exports will rise $1 billion in the next year, led by lower-priced U.S. cotton and the new jets. These new realities of world trade have moved the Administration to take a sterner view of foreign nations that still jealously preserve high tariffs and import quotas against dollar goods long after the need is past. At next month...
...million (v. $229 million in 1952); close to $200 million will be in precision and heavy manufactured goods, directly competitive with products in which the U.S. specializes. Throughout the world, Japanese exports of heavy goods-turbines to Brazil, electric train cars to India, bulldozers to Spain-are targeted to rise this year some 40% to about $700 million...