Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garlanded and photographed, Billy Graham was cutting through India like Gabriel in a gabardine suit. In Bombay, bloody Communist-led rioting canceled his scheduled meeting; he toured the riot area instead and spoke to some stone-throwers. "They all had very sweet smiles." he said afterward...
...best excuse in years for a party. In the final round of a long-standing dispute with the U.S. Government, he reached a settlement that will enable him to expand some more. Since 1953, the Government had seized 19 of Niarchos' U.S.-built ships, charged in a suit that he had bought them through front corporations specially set up in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 22, 1954), though barred as an alien from buying U.S. war-surplus vessels for American flag operation. Under the final settlement reached last week, Niarchos will 1) pay the U.S. $4,500,000 (making...
...tried to exploit the traditional Southerner's predicament in a time when deep-seated customs must die in face of social progress. She has brought to this situation the modern, probably Yankee assertion, that it's quite proper to mess around sexually with someone before marriage, the better to suit one's mate later. The two require a good deal of delicacy in treatment, particularly if the play has no moral resolution. Unhappily, the makers of Debut have used a heavy hand...
...comedy undeniably has four or five funny bits. With addition, revision, and some restraint, Debut might well suit Broadway tastes...
...support of "other substantial stockholders." However, if the Canadian Locomotive deal goes through, and the new shares line up on the Morse side as expected, the Morse family will have some 35%-working control-of its own company. But Silberstein hopes to block the deal, probably by a court suit...