Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Single Helmsman. Next morning, Mirza, who less than a month ago had abolished parliamentary government and decided to rule with the army's help, was off to a holiday spot in the Quetta hills, while servants crated his personal belongings and prepared the presidential palace for its new occupant. At another Karachi mansion, General Ayub (pronounced: eye-yub) strode across the lawn to meet newsmen. Out of uniform, the general was wearing a blue cord suit with a red handkerchief peeping from a breast pocket, a pastel green shirt, a striped...
...same shortage of sponsors for unrehearsed humor also killed the best new comedy show in years. The show: Keep Talking, a zany competition between teams of comic talkers trying to spin out a screwball tale while slipping in a screwball secret phrase that the opposition must spot. Literate and consistently funny, the show was carried by CBS all summer and into the fall without attracting a sponsor. Last week CBS decided that while it still liked Keep Talking, it could not afford to keep paying...
...Says he: "Maybe it's popular because they want a free dance lesson." Hostess Kathryn, at 52, still a petite 98 Ibs., tries a bit harder to understand. "I've a harsh, unattractive voice, but at least it's distinctive," she says. "The cab drivers always spot it. The other day, one of them said to me: 'You don't have talent, you can't sing, you're not a very good dancer, you're no glamour girl and you're no spring chicken, but there's one thing...
Despite these drastic efforts (plus the fact that he allocates all newsprint and advertising), Menderes has not broken the press to his harness. He can still pick up a Turkish paper or magazine almost any day and spot something that sets him to boiling
...Received non-Italian cardinals in a daily round of special audiences to take advantage of their presence in Rome. One of the first and most cordially received was the cardinal in the hottest spot of all -Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, a close friend of the Pope...