Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diane Baker), a wide-eyed kid from Colorado, gives her heart and other personal effects to a lowdown uptown type (Robert Evans) who promises to marry her. But on her wedding day, bridal bouquet in hand, she discovers that he is not driving her to the church but to the abortionist...
Missiles & Rails. The booming construction industry and the railroads are little better off. Builders estimate that it will take 60 to 90 days of renewed steel production before normal deliveries are resumed. Says Robert V. Tishman, executive vice president of Tishman Realty & Construction Co.: "With very few exceptions, all construction jobs in the initial stages, where steel is a big factor, have been stopped." The strike slowed construction of vital defense projects, such as the Air Force's new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launching base at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, threatened Atlas ICBM deliveries. Military projects need...
POOR NO MORE (706 pp.)-Robert Ruark-Holt...
Craig Price, the financier hero of Robert Ruark's new novel, makes such a point of drinking, uttering menaces, shooting lions and helling about with women, that one suspects him of wearing a toupee-all that chest hair can't be real. At any rate, he is a standard literary article -the poor boy who gouges his way to wealth. The author's account of the gouging has its moments, but doggedly lumped together, they become hours...
...racketeering unionist, and beggars countless widows and orphans in a stock fraud-all without altering his own good opinion of himself. The odd thing is that Author Ruark seems to share that good opinion. "Cash" Price, the coldhearted moneyman, has most of the personal characteristics (villainy aside) of Robert Ruark himself: a fondness for Brioni suits, Peal's boots and Joe Bushkin's piano playing; a distaste for the Stork Club and ladylike male authors. Can such a man be altogether...