Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south, in the precarious artificial kingdom of Jordan, anti-Communist King Hussein, 21, failed in a roundabout maneuver to shuffle Red-leaners out of Premier Suleiman Nabulsi's cabinet. Nabulsi, 48, is the Palestinian ex-soap manufacturer who took office after pro-Nasser parties swept last October's parliamentary elections. Nabulsi refused the king's demand for his resignation and instead proclaimed that the Cabinet had voted to establish diplomatic relations with "our loyal friend, the Soviet Union." In a speech at his refugee-crammed home town of Nablus, he defended what he called his "positive neutralism...
Looked at casually, the three shiny, silvery balls, 20 in. in diameter, seem to be made of polished aluminum. A closer look shows that they have an elusive iridescence, like the rainbow colors of soap bubbles. This is the only visible hint that there is something tricky about their shiny surfaces. The three balls in the Naval Research Laboratory at Washington are satellites for Project Vanguard to place on orbits circling the earth...
...testy old Konrad Adenauer's reasons for keeping Erhard at home. This is election year in West Germany, and two weeks ago the nation's bakers handed the opposition Socialist Party a made-to-order issue by jumping the price of bread. Last week, as the soap and furniture makers followed the bakers' lead, the Socialists talked ominously of spreading inflation and accused Erhard of "quietly leaving the consumer to his fate...
...years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden blazed the trail with True Story, the confession industry has thrived by sticking to the same trite-and-true formula: first-person stories of subjective sex that are more often fiction than fact, and read like supercharged soap operas...
Gamy Gamut. Unlike soap opera, the average confession story runs a gamy gamut of misadventure and misfortune whose-Boccaccian detail is tempered only by the bowdlerized prose of Hollywood. A bastard is a "sin child" or "living proof," adultery is "cheating." But in the end, every Wedding-Ring Dodger and Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick...