Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then the twelve-hour time limit on the Anglo-French ultimatum had nearly expired. Spectators were turning uneasily to the Council chamber's big wall clock. Russia's Sobolev proposed a watered-down resolution calling upon Israel and Egypt to cease fire. Once again, Britain and France vetoed...
...entirely illadvised. Thanks to Morton DaCosta's lively staging, it makes speed a kind of substitute for wit, and puts pedestrian writing on horseback. Its quick-changes also consort well with Auntie Mame's scatterbrained nature, besides providing a fine succession of new costumes, new hairdos, new wall treatments, new gaffes, new predicaments...
When war breaks out. so goes the Wall Street maxim, stocks go down and commodities go up. Last week the maxim once more proved true. The news from Egypt set off the widest break in the New York Stock Exchange since the President's ileitis attack of June 8. Led by Royal Dutch-Shell. Gulf Oil and other oil companies with large Mideast holdings, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 6.62 to 479.85. But when the President pledged "no involvement." the market bounced up again. At week's end the market had more than regained its losses...
From Wilshire Boulevard to Wall Street, stockholders in the world's biggest moviemaking company chose up sides in the most colossal management fight in Hollywood history. The prize: control of Loew's Inc., which encompasses Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, M-G-M Records, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, plus a $33 million funded debt. To head off the battle, Joseph Vogel, Loew's president of three weeks, flew from his Manhattan office to Hollywood, hustled through the first leg of a monthlong, no-martini inspection, promised to find out what was wrong...
...York a spokesman for Wall Street's Lehman Bros, and Lazard Freres claimed that together they can control 3,000,000 of Loew's 5,142,615 shares and throw out the board at the next annual meeting on Feb. 28. If it takes over Loew's, the Lehman-Lazard group would probably keep Vogel in charge of Loew's Theaters division, which he headed until last month, and hire a president who would drastically cut MGM's staff, replace Movie Production Boss Dore Schary, sell off some money-losing Loew's theaters...