Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present $500,575,000 budget. Ike gave no sign of his response. No sooner had Glennan left than the President posted an order to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoning them to an 8:30 a.m. meeting next day. Then, heeding a forecast of afternoon showers, Ike cut short morning paper work, laced on his golf shoes and headed off for the first...
...during the course of questioning butchers that Investigator Kaplan's agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered at bureau headquarters. There, suave, mouse-browed Director Frederick J. Loughran and Inspector Bert Smith told him about a "new system." Seligman was simply to pay Loughran "a couple of thousand dollars" to kill the summons. When he protested, an inspector told him: "If you don't pay up, you will...
...film has its failures. The movie hero is pretty much an overgrown boy scout who never experiences the moral struggles that beset the hero of the book. Then, too, the story sometimes lags-not, oddly enough, because it is too long but because it is too short. For the final script, M-G-M eliminated an entire subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary...
Next day the smiles faded. A Vatican spokesman said that Authenticator Porcella had indeed worked for the Vatican-for a short period more than 24 years ago on a guidebook. The Italian government, which keeps tab on its art experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore...
Rates will go up an average of 17%, with sharpest increase in low-weight, short-haul packages...