Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PROXY TURNABOUT will send Fairbanks, Morse's President Robert H. Morse Jr. after seat on board of Penn-Texas Corp. at annual meeting in May. Insurgents plan to put up full slate of directors to oppose Penn-Texas' President Leopold Silberstein (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.), who is fighting to win control of Fairbanks, Morse...
General Thompson's turnabout, which raised total U.S. production to a record 7,515,400 bbl. a day, did not mean that the oil shortage had worsened. Only a fortnight ago Thompson himself appeared before a House committee in Washington to argue with an expert's persuasiveness that reports of a serious shortfall in the European oil lift were only a myth. Bearing out his analysis, Britain has since eased oil rationing...
Buckling under the pressure of Nationalist army leaders, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek last week halted thorium exports to the U.S., canceled the 1955 U.S.-Brazilian agreement to cooperate in exploring Brazil for deposits of radioactive minerals. The U.S. embassy in Rio first learned of the turnabout by reading about it in the local newspapers. Brazil's troublemaking Communists, who could never have brought off such a coup by themselves, whooped with delight. Bannered the Communist daily, Imprensa Popular: HISTORICAL VICTORY
...attitude toward drama. How would be compelled to ask. "What caused this change?" In 1953 if he had been told that dramatics would hold a dominant position in the University in 1956, he would have said this would only be possible with a Harvard Theatre. The reasons for the turnabout in attitudes is not readibly explainable. Walter Kerr of the New York Herald-Tribune points to the recent surge of dramatic activity throughout the country as being based on a "removal of political suppression" and "economic prosperity," but at Harvard, students who have been active in drama since 1953 have...
Barring an unexpected turnabout in the next day's free figure trials, this meant that Tenley Albright had beaten Carol Heiss again. No one else was close. "Oh, the judges like Tenley." whispered Mrs. Heiss to a companion. "They always do." Then she searched out Tenley Albright's mother, Elin, and congratulated her. "We've just lost the championship," Mrs. Heiss told newsmen. "I have already congratulated Tenley's mother, and I asked her to put it on record that I congratulated her this year one day ahead of time...