Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neurotic Explosions. During the closed hearings, Stoky accused Gloria of keeping terrible hours, attending too many parties, spending too little time with the boys. Gloria, in turn, charged Stoky with "tyranny," cattily observed that he is not 72, as he claims, but 85, declared that the Maestro hovered over the boys' lives like an "overanxious, harassing and harassed great-grandmother, creating neurotic explosions over minutiae...
...mood in the yellow-walled Defense Ministry. There sat Premier Kassem, who had let the Communists in his entourage rise to power in order to prevent Nasserites from taking over his revolution. Now at last he saw the need to prevent the Communists from taking over the revolution in turn, and sought to create a third group in Iraq loyal to him instead of to Cairo or Moscow. Against the advice of the Communists, who cry for blood vengeance, Kassem last week continued to release political prisoners from jail, and declared an amnesty for all those "who indulged in conflict...
...late May they moved on Khartoum once again, with four scout cars, lights dimmed, leading three companies in full battle dress. But this time their coup misfired. A motor-pool major refused to lend his trucks to the cause. Sensing defeat, Moheiddin at 2 a.m. left Khartoum hoping to turn back the advancing troops, but could not find them. By then, news of the plot had gotten out. Easygoing General Abboud had had enough, arrested 18 officers...
...face (see cut). Patterson literally rose six inches into the air before thudding to the canvas on the seat of his white satin pants. He wobbled up at the count of nine, and stared bewildered in the direction of the Yankee bleachers. Johansson did not wait for him to turn around. He clipped him with a left hook, then smashed a right over the ear. Patterson fell. Five times more Patterson lurched gamely to his feet, and five times more Johansson smashed him down. At last Referee Ruby Goldstein called off the slaughter, and the freshest grin in boxing flashed...
...postwar development of oxygen plants for the steel industry. By using oxygen instead of air in furnaces, steelmakers are able to increase their production 20% ; Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams hails the process as "the only major technological breakthrough in the steel industry since the turn of the century." Last week Air Products announced three new plants for steel companies. It will build and operate a $10 million plant for Weirton Steel, j a $3,000,000 plant for Granite City Steel, and a $7,000,000 plant for Jones & , Laughlin. Accounting for 25% of industry...