Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novak marries that Mac Krim, she will turn up with the creepy name of Kim Krim, which should make her right at home with the creepy creeps in Hollywood...
...team to work in Washington, peppered the governors' committee with plans and suggestions aimed at reaching a workable if not dramatic program of action. Last week Anderson & Co. were ready with facts and figures, and Anderson quickly ticked off six simple obligations that the U.S. is willing to turn over to the states next year...
...gone on a hunger strike, threatened to resign, taken to the road to talk down an impending general strike. Much of his trouble has been spawned by left-wing elements in his own Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.). led by Labor Boss Juan Lechín, who has helped turn Bolivia's biggest dollar earner, tin mining, into a mismanaged, worn-out featherbed for his followers. But last month Siles pushed Lechín to the sidelines by dissolving the leftist-dominated ruling body of the M.N.R. and firing four pro-Lechín Cabinet members. A fortnight...
Lanin may charge $90 for a two-man short turn or as much as $15,000 for a nightlong ball with full band. Although he generally stops playing at the contracted hour, well-heeled and well-oiled bloods, their Lester Lanin beanies askew, occasionally dance up to him and slip him $500 or so to keep things jamming till sunrise. Lanin is more flexible about his fees than most society bandleaders. To cultivate a future clientele, he will play for almost nothing for the subdeb crowd or the allowance-ridden young men of Princeton, Harvard and Yale...
Architecturally speaking. Congress has been giving the U.S. Air Force a rough ride. While Congressmen want the Air Force to have the very latest thing in airplanes and missiles, they do not feel quite the same way about chapels. Congressmen marshaled some Congress-like reasons two years ago to turn down plans for the Air Force Academy chapel at Colorado Springs (TIME, July 18, 1955 et seq.). So angry were their cries against the glass, steel and aluminum project that the Air Force decided to rub it all out and start over again. Last week the House debated...