Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas of horse opera suffer as they give birth to their roles? The riding, shooting, even walking lessons they must take; the continual risk of shooting off a sideburn? But the western story is not merely a tale that is told by television, full of sound and fury, signifying little. It traces back to a fantastically colorful period of U.S. history, the era when there was "no law west of Kansas...
Behind Barbed Wire. An Army helicopter stood ready on the grounds of the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
Atom-Test Suspension. The U.S. view: either disarmament or test suspension, actually parts of the whole, must be accompanied by foolproof inspection controls. The Macmillan view: much the same in principle-but the British are willing to take greater risks in deciding what constitutes foolproof controls. Says a British spokesman: "The Russians don't like foreigners swarming around their country. We don't think they should be allowed to have a veto over inspection, but we think some arrangement can be made so there is no swarming in of foreigners." Even in its unilateral decision to halt atom...
...gradually abolish all tariffs and import quotas over the next ten years. Getting rid of protective tariffs, he said, would expose U.S. businesses to brisker competition, force them to become more efficient, more imaginative, more resistant to excessive wage demands. "No single step that the Government could take," said he, "would make such an important contribution toward strengthening the American economy...
Wherever she went, she could take along one consolation. Testifying in her behalf last week, Frank Duncan said sadly: "If I had a choice for a mother, much as I have been humiliated and hurt, I would still choose the same mother...