Word: sponsor
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Congress should be willing to sponsor a general inquiry by an independent commission. Such a commission should represent the major interests involved, and should include leading economists. Its investigation would secure the cooperation of governmental and private organizations, instead of putting all concerned on the defensive. It would seek to understand all aspects of our economic predicament in order to suggest to the federal government the best use of present economic power and to determine whether new measures, such as wage and price controls, are necessary...
Back to the Line. Canada's Lester ("Mike") Pearson called this so vague that he refused to co-sponsor it: he wanted to reassure Israel that if it agreed to the first resolution, it would be protected by the second. But Cabot Lodge was after a resolution that would satisfy enough Afro-Asians, and teamed up with India's Krishna Menon to achieve it. Once the Israelis withdrew, said Lodge, the U.N. troops would be "deployed on both sides of the armistice line, particularly in the sensitive Gaza and El Auja sectors" and "at the Strait of Tiran...
Already a pioneer in the stratosphere of quiz shows, Van Doren has only a fictitious precedent if he decides to press on. In a 1950 movie comedy, Champagne for Caesar, Ronald Colman played an omniscient scholar who almost wins a quiz-show sponsor's $40 million soap company. Says Sponsor Rosenhaus: "Everybody keeps asking if Van Doren is going to win the Geritol company. But we're safe." Geritol's contract with Barry & Enright limits its annual outlay for prizes to $520,000; anything over that comes out of the producers' pocket. So far, Van Doren...
Mayerling was the most expensive, most publicised dramatic show in the history of television. The advertisements and a cover story in Life magazine loudly proclaimed that sponsor RCA and producer Anatole Litvak had spent half a million dollars to restage Litvak's screen success of twenty years ago, and that Audrey Hepburn and her husband, Mel Ferrer, had been hired to perform in it. After it was all over, however, the ad men would have had a difficult time convincing anybody that Mayerling was anything but a monumental bore...
...opposite). In April the Art Institute of Chicago will celebrate its newly purchased Iris at the Side of the Pond by surrounding it with the museum's collection of 29 other Monets. Next fall the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and St. Louis' City Art Museum will jointly sponsor the biggest Monet show of all: 75 to 100 Monets from the U.S. and abroad...