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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a stop at a booth where Khrushchev took a skeptical sip at a Pepsi-Cola. Nixon and Khrushchev went on to the exhibition's most publicized display: a six-room, model ranch house with a central viewing corridor so that visitors can see the shiny new furnishings. Soviet propaganda had been telling Russians in advance that the ranch house they would see at the U.S. exhibition was no more typical of workers' homes in the U.S. than the Taj Mahal was typical in India or Buckingham Palace in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Better to See Once | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...evening began, in the tradition of Ike's black-tie stag dinners, with cocktails in the second-floor oval study. The party moved to the state dining room (main course: roast beef), then on to brandy and coffee in the book-lined, ground-floor library. Net reportorial result: an informal, wide-ranging press conference, with the President speaking his mind freely, unworried by direct quotations. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Voice of Authority | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Kaufman and Hart comedy will be performed on a stage now being erected in the Lower Common Room of the Harvard Union. The modular stage owned by Dunster House, which was built this year with funds provided by the Ford Foundation, will be the basis of the temporary structure, while elements of the Adams House apron stage. also financed in part by the Ford Foundation, will be used to complete it. The new stage is designed for minimal interference with normal activity in the common room, piano room, and TV room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Theater Group to Give 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

...field on a stretcher. In quick succession, Russia's Hubert Pyarnakivi and the U.S.'s Max Truex managed to finish, and then they too went into that eerie dance of exhaustion. Both Americans were rushed to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Russian to his hotel room, and all three were given intravenous injections of water, salt, sugar and vitamins. Said U.S. Track Coach Frank Potts: "When you get American and Russian athletes together, nobody's kidding. Those boys were either going to win or bust a gut. They busted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Win | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...took the winning bidder to court, wrested the contract away from him. Where wiretapping is illegal, confided one company agent, "there are other ways of getting information. The waiter serving lunch in the man's suite, the telegrams the bell captain might see, the maid who cleans the room, the switchboard operator. These people are paid to keep their eyes and ears open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Spying for Profit | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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