Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago would have seemed very good news: Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell declared that "the persistent rise [in consumer prices] has ended," and the Bureau of Labor Statistics followed up by announcing that its Consumer Price Index, after creeping upward for 13 months in a row. held steady in October...
...points back. Most Valuable Player in the American League: the New York Yankees' bad-legged Outfielder Mickey Mantle (batting average for the season: .365), who limped in 26 points ahead of Boston's Ted Williams (.388) to take the title for the second year in a row...
...make a big cinemusical out of Porgy and Bess, the Negro folk opera (music by George Gershwin), the one trouble he did not foresee was a shortage of candidates for the leading roles. Since its first performance in 1935. the tuneful story of sorrow and joy along Catfish Row has been one of the theater's few durable meal tickets for Negro entertainers. It has enjoyed successful revivals on Broadway, innumerable road companies and a State Department-blessed international tour that included Russia and the satellites...
...will be a revitalizaed French approach to the Algerian problems. Already Gaillard and Pineau have taken a significant step forward in introducing a bill for limited Algerian autonomy into the Chamber of Deputies. Only the French could be so perverse as to defeat such a bill twice in a row. The best hope for peace in North Africa is a program of gradual independence under the sponsorship and with the guidance of France. The French legislators, irrational or not, cannot ignore the need and the solution forever...
Last week Zensei was ready to concede defeat. Some brothelkeepers decided to go legal by converting their establishments to "tea parlors" and "grilled chicken restaurants." One Tokyo group announced plans to replace its old row of houses with a $280,000 "amusement center" containing "game parlors" and "chess rooms." Zensei's Tokyo branch notified the city government that all girls would be fired in the next two months and helped to get other jobs. Said a surprised official: "This time they really seem to mean...