Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entirely serious in tone. Oh, we will play a little bridge and do a little dancing-and Spyros Skouras has sent us 20 new movies to show. But everybody will have to be in bed by 12 and up at 8. There'll be a gong to wake them. The main emphasis will be on learning about the places we visit." Elsa had only one indulgence to offer her serious-minded Achillonauts. "If you wear your hat with brim turned to the side, it will mean, 'Don't anybody speak to me. Just don't talk...
...Geneva talks-in the same building where the Big Four conferred two weeks before-opened in the wake of a transpacific colloquy conducted between John Foster Dulles and Red China's Chou Enlai. The Secretary of State enunciated a principle by which the U.S. would judge Peking's professions of peace. The principle was "nonrecourse to force." Hours later Chou replied in a speech that for him was almost moderate: he called no one a bandit or warmonger. The old demands were reiterated-for U.N. membership and an end to the trade embargo-but alongside them...
Canada's booming uranium industry has leveled off sharply in the past month, in the wake of rumors out of Ottawa and Washington (which buys most of Canada's uranium) that the market might be approaching the saturation point and that the Canadian government was about to stop buying uranium. Last week Defense Production Minister C. D. Howe cleared the air with a statement of the government's uranium policy: ¶ Until March 31, 1962, Ottawa will buy all acceptable uranium concentrates, i.e., 10% U208, at a maximum price of $7.25 per Ib. for the uranium content...
...another puff of inflation? Last week, as a scattering of price increases showed up in the wake of the steel price increase two weeks ago, many a businessman feared that it was. Philco Corp. warned that high raw material and increased labor costs "are contributing to another round of higher production costs." Youngstown Kitchens announced a10¼% boost in factory prices. Dun & Bradstreet, which asked 1,104 businessmen what they intend to do about prices in the last quarter of this year, reported that 26% said they expected to raise them (in April, in answer to a similar question...
Died. Arch Ward, 58, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, famed for his catch-all column "Wake of the News," personal promoter of the Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament and originator of the annual All-Star Baseball Game (in 1933) and Football Game (in 1934); of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago...