Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan Perón, who cannot get a U.S. visa, last week reserved space for himself and his young blonde secretary, Isabel Martinez, on a flight from Puerto Rico to Madrid. He canceled out when he could get no assurance of exemption from U.S. immigration and customs during the short stopover in San Juan, but presumably will try again by some other route...
...possessive and vivacious Latin beauty Stone calls "the tidy siren." It was on a plane to Paris that Stone first met Maria Elena Torch, of Cleveland, a flashing brunette of mixed Italian and Spanish parentage who had come to New York, was then working as foreign editor on the short-lived quarterly, Fashion & Travel...
...short order, Stone found himself flooded with clients eager to try his new romantic modern architecture. In the Stuart Co. building in Pasadena, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 20), Stone tried his grille as a solution to Southern California's climate, turned out a pill factory with such Tiffany & Co. glitter that one leading California architect said: "This building records all the gains of modern architecture and yet remains a romantic building." In a dormitory for the University of South Carolina, Stone, along with Architect Thomas Harmon, used the grille as a façade sheathing a monolithic block with housing...
...blue-eyed Pete Collins himself how much help he had in the strategy of attrition. And most of it came from the course itself-the wicked 5.2-mile grind over the taxiways and runways of Sebring's seldom used airport. One circuit on the unbanked hairpin turns and short straightaways calls for 21 gear shifts; the driver who finishes the twelve-hour test pumps his clutch at least 4,300 times. Tires get cooked on the baking concrete. Brakes take the worst beating...
...there. No self-respecting people want charity; they want to earn their way. To seize the initiative in the cold war, we must first make ourselves worthy of the leadership of the free world. But we will never do that so long as we continue to act in the short-term special interest of our minority groups." Concluded Clayton: "Our oil imports come partly from Venezuela (buyer annually of $1 billion of American goods, the economic equivalent of 250,000 American jobs), partly from Canada (our best customer in all the world), partly from the Middle East. Are we going...