Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after his arrival in Denver, Sherman Adams was permitted to see the President for six minutes. The conversation was limited to Adams' recent trip abroad, and Ike was particularly interested in his fishing expeditions last summer in German streams where Ike himself had fished, and in Turkey, at the headwaters of the Euphrates River, where Adams fished for golden trout...
Britain's Prime Minister Anthony Eden last week made a flying trip to Balmoral to consult his Queen. At the same time, Group Captain Peter Townsend, R.A.F., announced from his diplomatic post in Brussels that he was planning a return to England on leave sometime after...
...Perez is an expert on North American affairs, having just returned from a comprehensive twelve-hour trip to Washington ... Of course, Perez speaks no English. But that just made the assignment more of a challenge. While he was mingling with the natives, he visited the country club, had lunch with John D. Vanderfeller (he owns the southern half of Maryland), and stayed at the penthouse on top of the Washington Star building . . . Here then is [America] as Perez sees...
Word has gone out that this season's TV dramas are to be "happy stories about happy people with happy problems." NBC's Television Playhouse, which TV-men laughingly called the "neurotic hour" because it pioneered in the realistic plays of Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky and Horton (The Trip to Bountiful) Foote, has had a change of producers and a change of view. CBS Story Editor Don Moore concedes that sponsors are begging for "upbeat" plays, but argues that it is simply because "morbid themes were overdone and a natural reaction set in." Writer Rod (Patterns) Serling agrees: "Plays...
Ford hopes that the new Continental will become as famed as the original, which was first styled by Edsel Ford and custom-built as a personal car. On a trip to Florida Edsel got so many requests for a car like his that he put the Continental into production in 1940. Though Ford collected dividends in prestige for the 5,322 Continentals it built, it lost money on every car. When the company skidded into the red after World War II, it stopped making them. Three years ago, after Ford moved solidly back in the black, Benson Ford proposed that...