Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traffic was at a standstill, and police reinforcements had been called into action. By such signs, Parisians knew they were witnessing France's newest art-world success, Nuts-and-Bolts Sculptor Césarsar Baldaccini. "Hail, César!" roared Combat. "The Benvenuto Cellini of scrap metal." trumpeted France-Observateur. Wiping his brow, Gallery Owner Bernard beamed: "Even Picasso doesn't pull them in any better...
French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...
WASHINGTON, May 6--Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers was pictured today as flatly opposed to repeal of the constitutional ban on a president serving more than two terms. He will present this view to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering a move to scrap the 22nd Amendment...
Word went round Detroit that G.M. was ready to scrap well-liked Ed Ragsdale. Finding a replacement was not easy: few of G.M.'s success-conscious comers wanted to take on Buick's woes. One G.M. veep, so the story went, was offered Ragsdale's job, nervously said no: "This is a promotion I don't deserve. Can't you please find somebody else to reward...
Ulen, who thought the dinner was to be only a Swimming Banquet, received a gift of $2,700 in addition to an award from the Red Cross and a voluminous scrap book containing letters of reminiscence from many of those he coached while at Harvard...