Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Descendant of an old Basque family, Echandi has served as Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S., since 1953 has been an outspoken leader of the opposition in Congress. His fluent oratory and eccentric flair (he always dresses in a striking black suit, tie and hat, lunches at the Union Club but orders a favorite peasant dish of highly spiced rice and beans) gave him a needed advantage over Orlich, a dour, earnest candidate...
...into the banana hauling business. Since then his company has grown into United Fruit Co., the world's largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that in 1954 the Government filed an antitrust suit against it, charging that the company controlled the banana lands of Central America and monopolized the banana trade. Last week, on the eve of a trial in New Orleans Federal District Court, United agreed to a consent decree under which it will create a new competitor...
Problem Settled. Settlement of the suit solves one of the major problems of Indiana-born Kenneth H. Redmond, 62, who succeeded colorful, scrappy old Samuel Zemurray as United Fruit's president in 1951. To Redmond the decree is a green light for plans on the shelf since 1954. Last year United Fruit leased a million-acre concession from the Panamanian government to drill for oil; it hopes now to look over other mineral resources in Central America. After the announcement last week, investors sent United Fruit from 39⅝ to 43 on the New York Stock Exchange. They noticed...
After writing bushels of novels, Alexandre Dumas felt a need for fresh material. He started off toward the Orient in a fishing smack, taking with him a 19-year-old "admiral" decked out in a musical comedy sailor suit. As Dumas wrote to a friend: "The charming little creature is in the habit of becoming a woman at night." Her name was Emilie Cordier, and she became pregnant just before the fishing smack ran into Giuseppe Garibaldi, then busy invading Sicily with his famed "Thousand." Forgetting the Orient, Dumas and the expectant admiral hurried to the great patriot...
...crystal-chandeliered salon, the press was dead silent as the first model swirled in, wearing a sprig of Dior's favorite flower, lily of the valley, on her suit. But as the third model sashayed out, sudden applause for the new Dior line crashed through the cream-and-gilt rooms. It kept up for two more hours and 175 more models. Cries of "bravo, bravo!" broke out at the finale, a model marching by in a bridal gown. When Saint-Laurent himself appeared, mothered by his two weeping associates, Mme. Raymonde and Mme. Marguerite, the blushing youth was mobbed...