Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asking Price. Traveling ballet troupes and mutual exchanges of praiseworthy banalities were, of course, getting to be old stuff. But the new turn in last week's accumulation of events was the emergence of the Big Two as a conscious entity. To Nixon, as to previous U.S. visitors, Khrushchev voiced the opinion that world peace could be guaranteed if only the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could get together. But Khrushchev's more crucial decision to give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four...
...flight to Villacoublay, eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris' Issy heliport and finally hopped onto a second motorcycle for the last spurt to the Arc. His time, including 4 min. for the last 4½-mile motorcycle dash: 57 min. 47 sec. "Sissy stuff," roared an R.A.F. rival. "I think the time can be brought down to near enough 40 minutes." That it was. At the end, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Charles Maughan, 35, got the last bit of ground speed from the motorcycle-helicopter system, picked up precious minutes by flying a transonic Hawker Hunter...
...months of poking through the scandals of Top Teamster Jimmy Hoffa and his pals, the Senate rackets committee thought it had uncovered all possible varieties of union rough stuff and muscle flexing from A (for assault with a deadly weapon) down to Y (for yelling from the witness stand-see Investigations). But it missed the last letter, until Z turned up around the House of Representatives recently in the form of a hard-boiled Hoffa lobbyist. His name: Sidney Zagri...
...hospital after tying on a monumental jag in London (TIME, July 20), scrawled a "confession" for a Dublin Sunday newspaper. "I'm neither dead, dying, drunk nor dotty," wrote he. ". . . It is true, however, that I am an alcoholic." Why does he tipple? "First, because I like the stuff. Secondly, because I like company, and thirdly, because a pint of orange or lemon juice is twice the price of a pint of stout...
...rapid dollar with indiscriminate energy. Salesman, shopkeeper, restaurantman, driving instructor, art-theater owner-Levine tried them all. Then he drifted into movie distributing, and his talent for what he calls the "big, big sell" began to pay off. It is a talent for recognizing the odd and often awful stuff that the public can stomach, buying it, and then peddling it behind a rolling barrage of ads and publicity gimmicks that have often cost more than half a million dollars...