Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special Interests. If Ike's long-range economic and political proposals got a slow welcome, the U.N. General Assembly could scarcely adjourn without working out a resolution that at least attempted to ease the pressing problems of Lebanon and Jordan. And here the problem was not only the Arabs, but a variety of special national interests in the 81-nation General Assembly: ¶ The Russians were sounding conciliatory in hopes of mustering a two-thirds majority for a resolution sufficiently ambiguous to be cited later as proof that the U.N. "ordered"' the U.S. and Britain out of Lebanon...
...country's traditional go-it-alone oil policy by announcing that nearly $1 billion worth of oil development contracts were closed or nearly closed with a long list of foreign oil companies and investors. Argentina has an estimated 2.3 billion bbl. of oil in underground reserves, but snail-slow development forces the country to spend about $300 million a year for imported petroleum and petroleum products...
...Stars. 13½-point underdogs, looked like pushovers for the World Champion Detroit Lions, but by the time the 25th annual All-Star football game (at Chicago's Soldier Field) was over, the college kids had twisted the Lions' tails in a 35-19 victory. After a slow start, the All-Stars put pressure on Lion Quarterbacks Tobin Rote and Bobby Layne, soon got their own offense going. Two Cleveland Browns draftees, Quarterback Jim Ninowski and Halfback Bob Mitchell, teamed up on spectacular pass plays of 84 and 18 yds. for touchdowns. Bobby Conrad of Texas...
...office, where Diane's assistant, Doris Hoffman, gave them a fast tryout for Haggis Baggis. "Give me an explorer who starts with M," snapped Doris at an unsuspecting male. "Give me an article in an office that starts with S," Doris said to a woman. The responses were slow and inept, and Doris blew up like a temperamental movie director. "Do it like this," she cried. "An explorer that starts with M?" She snapped her fingers, tore at her hair, looked agonized, then beamed and shouted: "Oh, that must be the guy they named the straits after...
More second-quarter-earnings reports last week indicated where business recovery is rapid and where it is slow. It is rapid in some aircraft companies, in machinery makers, rubber and steel. It is slow in base metals and oils, which still suffer from low prices and excess capacity. Both Anaconda Co. and Kennecott Copper Corp., the country's two biggest copper producers, failed to cover their dividends; Kennecott chopped its quarterly payment from...