Word: straightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pritchett's people are caught-as by an exploding flashbulb-in a continual start of surprise. The inexplicable pressure of events, they seem to be saying, has bent them into postures they had never foreseen. Before they can straighten up, furl their umbrellas and walk on, the reader has learned everything about them he will ever need to know...
Unable to straighten up completely because of her recent gall-bladder extraction (TIME, July 7), convalescent Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 35, was further bent by a madding mob of 300 as she was propelled out of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital. While some blamed her new tornado tresses on the shoddy protection of her eight-man flying wedge of hospital attendants, insiders suspected the genius of Jacqueline Kennedy's coiffeur, Mr. Kenneth...
...Michael William McCarthy, 57, president of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest brokerage firm, was named chairman and chief executive officer, filling the vacancy left by Winthrop H. Smith, who died last January. Trained in the grocery trade, McCarthy joined Merrill Lynch in 1940 to straighten out the firm's accounting and order-processing operations, then in a tangle because of merger with other firms using different procedures. To prepare, he worked in every department, then successfully tackled the tangles, moved up to a general partnership in 1944. The new president: George J. Leness...
...technical assistance or outright grants. Yet Bolivia's economy is still near bankruptcy, and its 3,500,000 ill-housed, ill-fed people are never far from revolt. The U.S. is now taking a new look at its aid program in hopes of finding a way to straighten out this discouraging situation...
...find something better to do with his life. The sister (Lelia Goldoni), a girl about 20, falls in love with a white boy, loses him when he discovers her race, goes into a hysterical spin. The older brother, a man about 30, steadies her down, tries to straighten the boy out too, tries to get on with his career as a no-talent ballad belter. At the end, things are still pretty much as they were at the beginning...