Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HOWARD HUGHES is near agreement with Thomas O'Neil, president of General Tire's subsidiary, General Teleradio, Inc., on a deal for RKO pictures. O'Neil will pay $22 million ($13 million cash) for RKO's picture-making facilities plus its library of 700 films, use both movies and the studio in his TV business...
...turn to score. At a shishkebab and pilaf supper in Tashkent he found that the people, despite 40 years of complete isolation from the rest of Asia, "still had Asian consciousness." They greeted him with cries of "Salaam aleikum" (may peace be upon you), and in Samarkand the en tire population came out into the streets chanting community songs. Telegrams be gan to pour in from Russian citizens asking permission to name their sons Jawaharlal or their daughters Indira (after Nehru's daughter...
...control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant's head until its narrowly watching eyes tire of keeping track of this baffling tennis game. Then, quicker than human eye can follow, she darts onto the mantis' back and fires her lightning shot...
...modern villa in Brioni, Tito sent the top Russians off on a tour of Croatia and Slovenia. Khrushchev flabbergasted his hosts by cracking bad jokes, swilling quarts of lemonade from a pitcher-sized glass, gnawing on an orange as voraciously as a dog with a bone. When a flat tire halted his car, he playfully challenged 59-year-old Anastas Mikoyan to a wrestling match. Yugoslavs looked on incredulously while Russia's 61-year-old Communist Party boss scuffled with his First Deputy Premier by the roadside. Mikoyan was often the butt of Khrushchev's pleasantries: "Some time...
Died. George Arthur Sloan, 61, industrialist (U.S. Steel. Goodyear Tire and Rubber) and president (since May 15) of the International Chamber of Commerce, who resigned in April after nine years as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association, 17 years as a member of the board; after an operation; in Manhattan...