Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Northwest Passage. Siegel and Coleman joined forces in Philadelphia while Siegel (a Lehigh journalism graduate) was commuting to a small job with a Manhattan TV film firm, and Coleman (Harvard, '48) was attending the University of Pennsylvania law school. They bought a stake in a soft drink company, swapped their interest for a Cleveland chemical company, whose earnings they doubled in ten months. Then in 1955 they spotted Pittsburgh's ailing Fort Pitt beer company, and took it over with all the eclat of two cub scouts finding the Northwest Passage...
...mention that the "vital difference" between Dienbienphu and Quemoy is that "United States prestige is directly at stake." With pride, I now march forward for God, country, and prestige...
Quemoy and Matsu. "What is at stake is not just Quemoy and Matsu, and not just Formosa, but the whole free world position in Asia. A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy." When Democrat Adlai Stevenson suggested a Formosa plebiscite to see whether Chiang Kai-shek should stay, Nixon shot back a suggestion for a plebiscite in Communist China to see whether the Reds should stay...
...shame. Last week San Francisco gave the first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton's Troilus and Cressida, Poulenc's Carmelites, Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake. Retorted Bing: "My congratulations and greatest respect to Mr. Adler for his daring to introduce these operas to empty houses...
...lacrosse team itself says grimly that it will play a full schedule of matches this spring. But where the money will come from--and how some of the wider issues at stake will be resolved--is still anybody's guess...