Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ninety minutes later, as Ike strode into the Indian Treaty Room of the old State Department Building for his first press conference in eight weeks, an overflow (311) crowd of reporters craned their heads to see for themselves. The President, dressed in a lightweight grey suit, looked more fleshed-out than during his Gettysburg convalescence, but still seemed thin...
...headlines by the sinking of Andrea Doria (see Disasters), the crisis picked up momentum by the minute. Lights burned late at State. the Treasury Department, the Pentagon. The British ordered drastic economic sanctions designed to bring Nasser down. Unofficially, Britain hoped the U.S. would not only follow suit, but would cut off further aid to Nasser and perhaps disrupt Egypt's cotton market by dumping U.S. surplus cotton abroad (a move that would also disrupt such cotton-growing friends as Mexico and Brazil). The French were talking of a military landing. All seemed to hope mightily for support from...
...SUIT AGAINST G.M. is planned by Greyhound, automaker's best bus customer. Greyhound charges that 570 out of 1,000 double-deck, air-conditioned Scenicruiser buses purchased from G.M. for $53 million developed lubrication troubles...
...sprinters, but as Lumsden touched out Tom Park, the fickle crowd was looking elsewhere. Just ahead of the two men, Denmark's beautiful Greta Anderson, 29, first of the women competitors (who started half an hour before the men) was struggling back into the top of her bathing suit so that she could leave the water. Patient fans even waited for sixth-place Muriel Ferguson, 19, and platinum-haired Greta Patterson, 18, who finished eleventh. Both girls had chosen to go the distance in the nude...
...rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa's best suit accidentally encountered in a forgotten closet...