Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclaimed necessity for keeping in touch with the people gave Communist Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien a beautiful opening last week. Government workers in the lower levels, he announced in what deserves to be preserved as a gem of Communist thinking, will soon have their wages cut so as to "enable them to live a life even closer to the masses...
Picked for Patsies. This week they are right in the middle of one of the fanciest midseason free-for-alls that the National League has ever known. The first division really consists of six teams, and there is not a soft touch even in the last two clubs (Chicago's Cubs, Pittsburgh's Pirates). The aging Dodgers may not be the world-beaters of other summers, but they are hanging on while some of their best players nurse assorted aches and pains on the sidelines. The St. Louis Cardinals have come upon a pair of pitching brothers named...
...Negroes on Graham's headquarters staff (one was hired last week) and the absence of what some Negro leaders call "social content" in Graham's sermons are cited as the chief reasons. Slum districts are likewise unrepresented. Explained one Henry Street pastor: "The crusade format would not touch our people...
...spend between $500 million and $600 million, probably more than any other company, to make sure that it does not miss igsS's style parade, as it did this year. Since both Buick and Oldsmobile had completely new bodies in 1957, they were slated for only a minor touch-up in 1958. But the competition from Ford's and Chrysler's low-and medium-priced designs has been so rugged that G.M. put on a crash redesign program, has revamped both cars completely. The General Motors line...
...Touch of the Supernatural. Most of the characters in these stories are beginning to feel their age and, if they have not found religion, at least have been brushed by the supernatural. The title story deals with a former U.S. Army pilot, penniless in Paris, who refuses $25,000 to pull a job for a smuggler because of a superstitious hunch that the job would be fatal for him. When a less imaginative friend succeeds, the flyer knows that fear, and not a hunch, has dictated his refusal...