Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mello, record breaker in the pole vault in his freshman year, started the winter in usual form, then faded. There's no reason why he can't recapture his spring. So far, Mello's touch...
...first Guard divisions to be sent overseas. They were being rushed off before they had finished their training. The public was also aware, but only vaguely, of big Russian concentrations in Manchuria and on Sakhalin island: a Russian assault on Japan might cut off the troops in Korea and touch off World War III. But these and similar grave possibilities, so real to the Pentagon, gave Americans no acute sense of clear and present danger...
...Defense production will represent 15% of total national production by year's end. By early 1952, the figure will rise to 20% which-short of total war-will be the maximum required. At that level, it will scarcely touch the civilian economy (see BUSINESS). At the high point of World War II, 45% of the nation's production was in war goods...
...precisely what makes her Pier Angeli. Hence the studio's orders against gilding the lily: no eyebrow plucking, no greasepaint lathering for stills, no hair-dyeing or publicity whirls. Pier's next assignment: the part of a painter who regenerates a swindler (Stewart Granger) in The Light Touch, to be filmed in Tunis and Sicily...
...Mateo, Calif., Special Touch, the $15,000-added Alameda Handicap. Calumet Farm's favored Coaltown, making his third comeback start, finished ninth...