Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barrack Talk. At 60 Ludwig Erhard's plump cheeks fairly glisten with the new German look of wellbeing. But nine years ago he was to be found, in frazzled pepper-and-salt suit and dirty shirt, in a little hole-in-the-wall office in flaking, bomb-scarred barracks near the imposing Frankfurt headquarters from which Allied commanders bossed the U.S. and British zones of occupied Germany. "There sat the economics adviser to the conquerors,'' recalls one caller, "almost like a dog on a chain.'' The professor was a torrential talker. To all comers...
...wants all merged organizations to have a "Harvard-Radcliffe" title, save by special petition. If a group wants to change its name, why not let them do it of their own accord. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra did it, and the U.N. Council, which is mainly Radcliffe, will probably follow suit. If girls in other organizations want "Radcliffe" on the club stationery, let them campaign on their own. They usually get their way anyhow. If the Radcliffe Administration would cut the official apron strings, the girls will do just fine all by themselves...
...haven't had any sleep in seventeen days," announced the man in the blue serge suit with the white carnation...
...rock bottom. In Texas, which supplies 42% of all U.S. oil, October output was limited to twelve days, lowest allowable since 1939. Louisiana wells are producing at history's lowest rate, while Oklahoma is so pressed that it went to court last week with a $500 million suit against Gulf Oil Corp., charging that the company cut its purchases of Oklahoma crude to 80% of allowables without asking for necessary "exemptions" from its buying agreements...
Return Match. In Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Flora Cosetta Smith Cooper filed suit for divorce, charging that her husband broke up with a girl friend one day, married Flora the next, went back to his girl friend the next...