Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They Planned. Of all last week's Democratic victories, the Minnesota win was the surest payoff of painstaking party organization, of long-range planning, of relentless year-round politicking and careful selection of candidates...
...plays, modern or ancient. The Marriage-Go-Round may well be the least given to digression. Here are sex and marriage, marriage and sex, with never a servant to interrupt, or a caller to intrude, or a child to compete; with not a moment's domestic small talk or campus chatter. So much single-mindedness, so many double meanings have a way-despite occasionally funny lines-of seeming both tedious and tawdry. Where The Marriage-Go-Round is not a Junoesque strip-tease on Actress Newmar's part, it becomes an attempted script-save on Colbert...
...carriers are not members-as are Pan Am and Panagra-of the International Air Transport Association, which taboos price warfare. The local airlines set fares as they please, often undercut Pan Am or Panagra by close to half. Samples: Guatemala's Aviateca charges $99 for a round trip between Guatemala City and Miami; Pan Am gets $147.60. I.A.T.A. fare for a Lima-Miami round trip is $473.40; Aerovias Panama Airways asks only $260. Aerolineas Peruanas sells a Santiago-Miami two-way ticket for $276.50; Pan Am and Panagra are required to charge...
...Received non-Italian cardinals in a daily round of special audiences to take advantage of their presence in Rome. One of the first and most cordially received was the cardinal in the hottest spot of all -Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, a close friend of the Pope...
Formidable Legacy. All over Venice, decked in flags to celebrate the second of its patriarchs to be elected Pontiff in 55 years, the word went round last week: "He will be a great Pope!" In Sotto il Monte the three remaining Roncalli brothers. Zaverio, 75, Alfredo, 69, and Giuseppe, 64, were having supper after a hard day's work when the big news came over their old radio. The rice soup grew cold while they listened; then as excited neighbors poured from their houses, the brothers hurried upstairs to dress up for the occasion. And in Sesto San Giovanni...