Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market that Busch has not yet been able to win back. Characteristically, Busch took the full blame. Said he to his stockholders at the annual meeting: "We made what was probably the worst mistake in the company's history. As your president. I take sole responsibility." The upshot: the stockholders so admired his frankness that they asked only a few questions and adjourned...
...night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count count (Michael Rennie), Vittorio sees his chance to do some three-cushion pimping. In the upshot Silvana gets drunk at a costume ball, has an experience with the count: "It was daybreak before I could leave-humiliated-disgusted ... I didn't know where I could hide-where I could run to." The manager (Shelley Winters) of a mambo troupe (actually Katherine Dunham's) suggests that...
...students remain notably unenthusiastic about Perón, which makes his watchful cops highly suspicious of them. Last October the police banned a routine social gathering of University of Buenos Aires engineering students, thereby touching off a student strike that spread to Argentina's other universities. Upshot: 250-odd student leaders landed in jail. Perón & Co. let 150 of them out during February and March, hinted that the rest would be released before the beginning of the new academic year in April (TIME, Feb. 21). Allowing the universities to open with 104 students still in jail would...
...upshot of the meeting was that Pretender and Dictator agreed that Juanito should be handed over to the guardianship of Lieut. General Carlos Martinez de Campos, Duque de la Torre, a hard-fisted former artilleryman who is Franco's close friend and has family ties with Don Juan. The duke, a member of the Spanish general staff, will have charge of a large staff of tutors, mostly from the Spanish naval college, who will instruct Juanito in military science, mathematics and history, prepare him for officership in the Spanish navy...
...Upshot of the case: Patrick was convicted of murder, only to be pardoned ten years later by New York Governor John Dix (he died in 1940). By turning state's evidence, Jones got his freedom. In Houston, having opened with an endowment of some $10 million from the estate of William Marsh Rice, Rice Institute has continued to grow and flourish. Last week in Baytown, 40 miles from Rice Institute, an old recluse finished the deed he tried to do in jail 54 years ago. At 79, onetime Valet Charley Jones picked up a pistol and killed himself...