Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Harvard professors, members of a Democratic economic advisory committee, warned Sunday that business and labor must cooperate with "firm, alert, and imaginative" government leadership to prevent the American economy from taking an inflationary "course which will lead inevitably to controls...
...breezy common touch, once greeted some late-arriving newsmen with a comradely: "What pub were you boys at?" Observed the sedate Sunday Observer: "It may arouse misgivings in those who saw, with admiration, the reigns of King George V and King George VI achieve their resplendent success by very different means. But the new style of monarchy shows the vitality and adaptability of the ancient institutions; it suits the uncommon gifts and energies of the dynamic man who is now at the Queen's side; and, most important of all, it happily meets an urgent need...
...live like any other officer's wife. For the first time in her life, the future Queen really saw how the other half lived. She drove her own Daimler, went shopping and danced with her husband and his friends till the early morning. Readers of Britain's Sunday supplements nodded in approval as they noted the new slim dimensions of her figure and the sharper, smarter cut of her clothes...
...Communists this week shut off German traffic on the Autobahn linking West Berlin and West Germany. Armed Red police forbade anyone to leave East Berlin and searched anyone trying to enter it. With his state thus sealed off, East German Premier Grotewohl went on the air at 8 a.m. Sunday to jolt his people out of bed. Grotewohl gave East Germans just 14 hours to hand in all their currency. Sleepy-eyed, they rushed to special conversion centers to get one new mark for each old one. No one was allowed to carry away more than...
...Jamestown. On Sunday, Elizabeth and Philip attended services at Ottawa's old Christ Church Cathedral; there Philip read the Parable of the Talents to an overflowing congregation. This week Elizabeth would open the Canadian Parliament (the first time a reigning monarch had performed this act), then fly to Jamestown, Va. for a ceremony marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of North America's first permanent English-speaking colony. Afterward, with Prime Minister Diefenbaker acting as the Queen's senior adviser, she and Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also...