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Even the sound of the skates gliding along told the judges the difference between a missed "change" or a smartly executed maneuver. So the five judges listened to the whisper of steel on ice, watched Tenley's flashing feet, her graceful arms and shoulders as she kept her delicate balance. And after each figure the judges skated out to inspect the size of the circles cut by Tenley's skates, the accuracy of her retracings, the telltale scrapings that signified "flats...
Three hours later, while furious Frenchmen circled his refuge in the Palais d'Eté, honking their horns, Mollet admitted shakily to newsmen: "I saw in their faces the look of total miscomprehension and hatred." His hands trembled, and his voice was little more than a whisper. His first retreat was to accept the resignation of 79-year-old General Georges Catroux, whom he had appointed Minister for Algeria (TIME, Feb. 13). Catroux' appointment had been a political blunder in the first place. To Algerian French, Catroux was "the liquidator'' of France's presence...
Steel production set a record (of 2,472,000 tons) for the third successive week. Department-store sales climbed 8% above the same 1955 week. Manufacturers' durable-goods inventories were still climbing, said the Commerce Department. In December they reached $26.3 billion, a whisper away from the $26.6 billion reached in 1953 just before the cut in buying and inventory recession. But this time there was a vital difference in the nature of the U.S. economy. Sales are now a far bigger proportion of inventories. Said Manhattan's Bankers Trust Vice President Roy Reierson: "Generally, there...
...Myth of Brattle Street is dead. The roads to Radcliffe are many and varied, but no longer will Harvardmen be able to whisper in a knowing way that the shortest path is along Brattle Street...
...Harrison deserted the cheesecake field to concentrate his efforts on a new publication which he entitled Confidential. Using the expose as the basic technique, he quickly proved that his idea was a sure winner. With such stories as "Georgie Jessel's Juvenile Janes" and "Pamela--the Churchill They Only Whisper About!", Confidential managed to increase its circulation from a modest 150,000 for the first issue to the present figure of almost...