Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Louisiana's house of representatives one day last week stormed a bulky, rumpled man, his collar tabs curling up over the lapels of his loose-hanging suit, his paunch bulging over his low belt line, his Western-style straw hat in hand. Governor Earl Kemp Long strode straight to the rostrum. "Double-cross!" he bellowed, in his gravel baritone. "I had 69 votes!" The bill before the house was one of the governor's favorites, and it had just gone down to defeat. Even as Earl bellowed, his floor leaders took their cue; member after member rushed...
...Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only a panel of female judges would see each contestant in a bathing suit; the girls could appear before male judges only when properly clad in veil and head-to-toe burka. The beauty sponsors even promised that when Miss Pakistan reached California, she would be in a good position to say a few words in favor of Pakistan's claim to Kashmir...
Party-Lining Baritone Paul Robeson, 58, battling for six years to get a passport in order to visit behind the Iron Curtain, was as far from the promised land as ever. The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a dismissal of Robeson's suit against Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Robeson's perennial dilemma: until he unclams about his past and present Red ties he will not even be considered for a passport...
...Gray Flannel Suit (20th Century...
...gives a curt goodbye to an English girl (Dana Wynter)-whose heart breaks in a nice, quiet English way, like a crumpet-and ships back to the little woman and the big house in Connecticut, where he clearly intends to trade in that olive drab for a grey flannel suit...