Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formula for the situation-comedy series is the electronic version of the old comic strip, with its broadly caricatured characters, simon-simple situations and zam-powie slapstick. Two new series made the point last week. Blondie (NBC, Fri. 8 p.m., E.S.T.) carried its own comic-strip pedigree. Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, Fri. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) offered husband-and-wife Hollywood stars playing husband-and-wife Hollywood stars. Howard Duff as a vain boob, Ida Lupino as the archetypically wise better-half. Except for wife Lupino's acerbic way with a line, it never got off the comic page...
...result of a $40 million wage increase that went into effect Jan. 1 as part of last summer's steel contract, and the Government's refusal to approve fast tax write-offs for expansion, the steel industry posted price increases ranging from 1% on hot rolled strip to 5% on plate. In the textile industry, synthetic yarns went up as much as 25? per lb. for nylon, 11? for dacron, bringing immediate wholesale price increases...
...Israeli relations, he argued that the problem "at the moment is essentially psychological," and that the important thing is to "gain time, without armed conflict, so as to allow passions to subside." To facilitate this he proposed that the United Nations military force should occupy "not only the Gaza Strip but a corridor of territory running from Gaza to the Gulf of Akbar...
...record 1,750,000 visitors v. 1,500,000 last year, soothed the doubt nagging at every Miami Beach hotelkeeper: had the Beach overbuilt? The answer: not yet, despite the $120 million spent on new hotels in the past five years, bringing the total along the seven-mile strip of sandy beach to 380 hotels and more than 30,000 rooms...
...establish its Emergency Force along the Egyptian-Israeli 1949 armistice line, some 120 miles to the east. To judge by the beginnings, this may take a long time. In Jerusalem Premier David Ben-Gurion announced that "under no circumstances" would Israel agree to return the captured Gaza Strip of Palestine territory to Egypt. And in the Sinai desert, advancing Yugoslav elements of the UNEF found that the retreating Israelis had skillfully scorched the earth...