Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Embalmo problem: men. For, as chief Mama Tia explains, South Embalmo has no males in its population. Idyllic problem-solving days pass, until Hurl learns that Noose Publications is planning a feature on the Corps and its work on the island. To impress Noose with the Corps and to save his official neck, Hurl tries to persuade the islanders to build a bridge. And so it goes, a series of ingenious ideas not executed very well...
Then how about Richard Stone: he's Gladys' maniacal boy friend, Hines the time-study man. Rolling his eyes with the fury of the late Al Jolson, pointing his finger with the assurance of Phil Silvers, he stalks his way through a number like "Think of the Time I Save." His real triumph, though, (it's perhaps the high spot of the whole show) is the fanatic "I'll Never Be Jealous Again," where, steeled to devotion by a secretary, Mabel (Barbara Charakian), he sweeps the woman into one of the deftest, suavest soft-shoe bits since Eddie Foy created...
...Space Sir: Thank you for your excellent coverage of John Glenn's orbital flight [March 2]. I intend to save this issue for my young sons in the hope that they will benefit more by reading it than by learning of it in a history book...
...McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare. I say it can't." Then Weinberg tried a whipsawing tac tic that he had previously used...
...immediate and rapid economic development programs will save the Congo from a new outbreak of hostilities, A. Van Bilsen, a former Belgian advisor to Congolese President Joseph bu, declared last night...