Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introduced a 3% interest amendment. But Republicans pulled him up short a second time. They argued that the lower interest rate was a short-term rate unsuitable to long-term loans, defeated the amendment (41-40) in a straight party vote. But when the bill had been shaped to suit them, 20 Republicans shifted, helped pass (60-26) and send to the House the measure making loans available for small-town schools, hospitals, sewers, parks and recreational facilities...
...Yugoslavs-whose Party Congress is already being cold-shouldered by Western Socialist Parties because Tito has two prewar Socialist leaders behind bars-humbly worded their program in a more pro-Soviet manner. Khrushchev decided that the change was not enough, and Red China and all the Communist satellites followed suit in boycotting the Ljubljana meeting. In isolation but still firmly in control of his own show, Tito last week allowed himself to be unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament, the 65-year-old Tito tried hard to stay...
...soon as Heikkila had arrived in Finland--suitcase-less and clad in a summer suit--Gen. Swing, faced with a contempt citation, ordered him to be flown back...
...need an automobile or a new suit or a set of golf clubs, don't buy them. What this nation needs is people who are willing to buy what no one else will. For if you buy the obvious things, then you are buying what other people are buying and what you will probably buy yourself eventually anyhow. So go out and waste money. Really flash it around...
...sorcerer himself receives a magnificent interpretation from Benjamin Nielson. His singing, costume and makeup suit the role perfectly and with his acting there can be no cavil. His rapid-fire patter song is a genuine show-stopper. As his page, nine-year-old Nicky Deutsch is charming...