Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were handshakes all round, but there was no playing of anthems, no crowd of the kind the U.S.S.R. can muster for a visiting Mongolian. Imperturbably, Nixon read through his short airport speech, drawing extemporaneously on his freshly learned stock of Russian proverbs ("Better to see once than hear a hundred times"). As the party set out for the U.S. embassy, Nixon stopped long enough to shake hands with bystanding Russians in the manner that had served him well through Britain, Asia, Latin America and Africa. But the Russians had not the slightest idea...
Tighten Up. To qualify for substantial foreign help, able Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres (a former economics professor) flew home from a last round of conferences in Washington and Paris, to start a long list of major reforms. The government decreed that the peseta, which up until now has been subject to at least 13 different exchange rates, would be fixed at 60 to the dollar. Excused for the time being from paying $45 million in foreign debts. Spain would get an injection of $375 million in additional aid from the U.S., OEEC, the International Monetary Fund, private U.S. concerns...
...Whoever rounded up the period costumes and props did a noble job tastefully and with great industry. But the long and intricate scene changes might be an indication that it is not such a good idea to do a heavy prop show in the round. Appropriate music might make the going a little less rough...
...super-health service featuring curative treatment for all forms of "manager's sickness." The company is asking German businessmen: "Are you important enough to your business to travel by ship?" Evidently, Bertram himself has just graduated to that class. This is fast-flying Bertram's first round-trip ship crossing since...
...insisted, but a salon. For entertainment Belle featured such "continental bizarrie as will be cayenne to the jaded mental tongue." For refreshment she offered the usual bootleg booze, champagne (at $30 a bottle) for the discriminating. One night she dared to charge Al Capone $1,000 for a round of soft drinks. But in 1931 the Feds closed down her "Country Club" on 58th Street, caught buxom Belle as she tried to skedaddle across the roofscape in red pajamas, and saw her sentenced to 30 days in a Harlem jail, where the warden thoughtfully put her in the prostitutes...