Word: suit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American corn, sent him by a U.S. seed company. On the nearby boardroom-type table were two bottles of mineral water: one from the North Caucasus, one from the South Caucasus. Khrushchev, wearing two Orders of Lenin medals on the left lapel of his dark suit jacket, waved his visitor to a chair at the table, took another for himself. "What," he asked, "would you like to discuss?" Replied Minnesota's endlessly ebullient, hardheadedly liberal Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Many things." And for 83-hours last week Nikita Khrushchev and Hubert Humphrey indeed discussed many things...
...Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit ... to prefer American cars, for any reason, to European; to believe that there may be any justice in the official position on Oppenheimer; to defend Western diplomacy on my basis; to invite company to dinner without candles on the table and without chamber music in the background; to criticize Arthur...
...Fassi, 48, the party's political leader, to become Premier. El Fassi is both a religious mystic and a rabble-rousing extreme nationalist who has led the agitation for a "Greater Morocco," to include large hunks of the French Sahara. He proposed too many leftist Cabinet ministers to suit the King. Last week the King saw little choice but to run the country himself, with a group of "technicians" as ministers. Under pressure from the politicians, the King has joined in demands for the total and unconditional withdrawal of U.S. and French forces from Morocco. But he is disturbed...
Charging "extreme cruelty," Cinemactress Debbie Reynolds filed suit for divorce from Crooner Eddie Fisher after three years, two months of another Hollywood "ideal marriage," asked for "reasonable and substantial support and maintenance" and custody of the two little Fishers, Carrie, 2, and Todd, nine months. Hours later, Eddie shared champagne and caviar at a Beverly Hills bistro with the cause of it all, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor ("I'm alive") Todd...
...more direct attack on the U.S. Government was made by Ian F. McRae, board chairman of Canadian General Electric Co., Ltd. and president of the Canadian Manufacturers Association. Apparently smarting from a recent Justice Department antitrust suit against General Electric Co. involving the company's Canadian subsidiary, McRae lashed out at the U.S. for continually "interfering in one way or another with the operation of U.S.-owned companies in Canada," criticized U.S. tariff policies. Said he: "Canadian products, with few exceptions, are rigorously excluded from the rich American market by your high tariffs...