Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron hand. Sample rules: a cup of coffee will mean exactly seven ounces and will cost 10? a frankfurter must weigh at least one-ninth of a pound and be served with a choice of relish and mustard; authorized repair garages must provide "comfortable accommodations" for stranded drivers to wait while mechanics tinker with their cars...
...reiterated British insistence that any Western plans for Asia must wait on India's Nehru, then launched a new proposal for an international guarantee for any Indo-Chinese settlement, "a reciprocal arrangement in which both sides take part, such as Locarno [see box]." Said Eden...
Unhappily, there was a mix-up at the concert: Catelinet's place on the program was changed without his knowledge, and he had to wait in the wings, hugging his tuba, for 20 minutes. By the time they got onstage, both Catelinet and his instrument (which, like all cussed brasses, needs a lot of last-minute tootling to warm it up) had a case of chills. The orchestra broke into the concerto, and the tuba came in disconcertingly off cue. The whole first movement, in fact, sounded as if there were pigeons in the brass, alas...
...cautiously pessimistic. "This baby is real tough," he gloomed. But at Augusta last March, after beating Hogan, he sang a different tune: "The sun don't always shine on the same little dog's tail." For Golfer Snead's tail, it had been a long wait for sunup...
...Long Wait (Parklane; United Artists). Mickey Spillane is not a writer to duck the vital issues. The first movie made from one of his mysteries, I, The Jury (TIME, Aug. 7), was a warning to psychoanalysts to stay out of the numbers racket. The second is apparently an ad for amnesia...