Word: surly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything like this." Spain had not. While bullfight tickets went begging, the carriage trade last week was paying up to five times the normal price to squeeze into Madrid's musty old Teatro de la Zarzuela and see the greatest hit in Spanish theatrical history. The hit: Al Sur del Pacifico. Translation: South Pacific...
...President, Steuben Glass, Inc., New York; Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '29, President, Cincinnati & Suburban Telephone Co.; Clarence C. Little '10, Director, Rosco B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Malcolm E. Peabody '11, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, Syracuse; Nicholas Roosevelt '14, author, Big Sur, Calif.; and H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, of Boston Science Museum...
Complaints about these, and countless other anomalies, pour into Washington each week. Last month GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) censured the U.S. for restricting dairy imports by quota. The London Economist wrote: "The U.S. is seeking two worlds-one where it can sell its sur pluses freely, and another where no other country can sell farm products freely to it." Said an angry Japanese businessman: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists, then they turn around and raise their duties on silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...
Died. General Georges Blanchard, 77, commander of the French First Group of Armies in the Battle of Dunkirk-in Neuilly-sur-Seine. In May 1940 General Blanchard threw the remnants of his armies together with Britain's, kept open the corridor from Lille to Dunkirk, making possible the escape of an estimated 80% of the British Expeditionary Force...
...Marquise de Bausset-Roquefort, a descendant of Sully who inherited the chateau in 1902, the greatest charm of Sully-sur-Loire lay in an ancient rumor that a fortune of francs in jewels and gold lay buried somewhere in its walls. In 1951 the marquise began looking for the treasure in earnest. She hired work men in droves to dig up the ancient foundations. When water from the castle moat seeped into the cellars, she brought in helmeted divers to continue the hunt. Girders gave way, walls collapsed, suction pumps worked overtime, but still the marquise searched...