Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school dances and such it was the custom for ten or a dozen smooth-faced young singers to array themselves on the stage during intermissions. This was the signal to head for the tall grass with your lady love. But now the Dunster Dunces have put out another record and we can all catch up on what was missed...
Business as Usual. Chicagoans read the blaze as a message written brazenly across the sky by the smooth-running, omnipresent crime syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record...
Richard Diamond (Thurs. 8 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). Very much a Diamond in the rough, "Rick" brawls with as much zest as McGraw, has got his quota of lumps when outnumbered by thugs in ambush. A smooth, handsome bruiser with dark curly hair, Diamond (David Janssen) can incapacitate an enemy for hours with his trick judo neck-chop, also has a vicious knee uppercut that comes close to decapitating downed adversaries. Diamond's most amazing talent is his ability to keep his fedora on, no matter how violent the battle. His worst quality seems to be his flagrant affection...
...Congressmen found that a simple "lack of awareness" is at the root of many irritations; a careful regard for Canadian interests and sensibilities by U.S. officials and businessmen would do much to smooth relations. So would more frequent visits by Americans, and better coverage of Canada by U.S. newsmen...
...into the moon's low places. So the maria, said Gold, are not filled with lava, but with dust, perhaps several miles deep. Gold suspects that the dust near the surface is still as fluffy as baby powder. He warned that an unwary spaceship that lands on a smooth lunar plain might disappear in dry quicksand...