Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit of its rival's lead. Hardly before the 121-gun salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba doughtily faced seven merciless hours of grilling in the TV glare. For U.S. consumption, Newsman Huntley stretched Outlook's normal half hour to a full 60 minutes, during which he also trekked through the ruins of Carthage, briefed viewers on Tunisia...
Confident of success. Louisiana's Passman, wearing an ice-cream white suit and eating an Eskimo Pie, lounged in the speaker's lobby before going to the floor to attack the Administration for its "propaganda" efforts on behalf of foreign aid. Opposed to Democrat Passman were such longtime Republican economy advocates as Minority Leader Joe Martin and New York's crusty old Representative John Taber. Cried Taber (whom Martin accurately described as "a man who is noted for his pinching of pennies") : "Why do we have the bill? It is because of our own military situation...
Just before South Viet Nam's doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem set off last week on a four-day state visit to neighboring Thailand, he was tactially informed that his favorite white sharkskin suit would not be proper at the Royal Thai court. He dispatched an aide on an emergency trip to Hong Kong, but when Diem took one look at the Western-style cutaway, striped pants and grey top hat that the aide brought back, he snorted in disgust and refused to wear them...
...mental health than other men. If the Revenue Service will not come around to allowing deduction of the full cost as a business expense, analysts in the making might still settle for treating their analysis bills as medical expenses, thus charging off some portion. ¶ Two Kansans filed suit against medical laboratories and highway patrolmen for damages in return for small blood samples (less than two teaspoonfuls) taken from them to test their sobriety after highway accidents. Fred Pfizenmaier, 50, of Clay Center, asked $10,000 for his blood, which tested at 185 mg. of alcohol...
Born. To Marisa Pavan, 25, actress of screen (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) and TV (Antigone, Dominique), twin sister of Italian-born Cinemactress Pier Angeli, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 47, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): a son, their first child, his second; in Santa Monica. Name: Jean Claude. Weight...