Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the flare-up in Hungary, trim-whiskered Walter Ulbricht, Communist boss of East Germany, has been like a cat on the hot tin roof of satellite unrest. Two weeks ago the jumpy Ulbricht, unable to stand the heat any longer, alerted the Communist fire department. In a speech before the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) Party Central Committee, he detailed a nefarious plot to overthrow the regime, and named as the chief incendiary a youthful (34) professor and editor named Wolfgang Harich. It was the first time that Ulbricht has acknowledged renewed trouble in East Germany...
Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, 57, followed the traditional path of victorious presidential campaign chairmen to the Postmaster General's chair, there largely abandoned politics to supervise sweeping Post Office reforms. To the public, modernization shows up in such improvements as red, white and blue mailboxes and trucks and trim new uniforms. To business experts it shows up more impressively in such innovations as administrative streamlining and cost accounting. Return ing for a new term. Summerfield must tackle a task he has failed at before: convincing Congress that rates should be upped (present thinking: 5? for all first-class mail...
...Europe is starting with shipment of 97 loaded truck-trailers from Brooklyn to France. TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. is chartering 475-ft. transatlantic ferry Carib Queen to Army, expects to begin commercial trips by March. Company figures roll-on, roll-off shipments will cut shipping time by two-thirds, trim packaging and handling costs...
...Greta Garbo-Melvyn Douglas comedy about how Lenin's glass-of-water theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy...
...special U.S. mission to explain Eisenhower foreign policy to Middle Eastern nations. South Carolinian Richards, who retired from Congress last week after 23 years in the House, has a formidable reputation on Capitol Hill, at the White House and abroad: last year he led a successful fight to trim $1 billion from the foreign aid bill, repeatedly called on the Administration to produce a long-range foreign aid policy that "made more sense." Now his job is to help it make sense...