Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lunik nose cone. "Just think of the millions and millions of miles," he muttered politely. At the model display of the Soviet nuclear icebreaker Lenin, Kozlov shouted in Ike's ear: "That's what we use atomic power for." The President, author of his own wide-ranging atoms-for-peace program, smiled and replied: "I've been preaching that for six years...
...pale as a Siberian snowfall, and his nose is straight and narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad stomach. In his jovial moments he bellows; at his most earnest his voice modulates softly and melodiously. He changes his expression in a flicker; impressing the curious stranger, his small, blue-grey eyes grow bluer, his smile...
...traditionally rendered as "Whisky per tutti"), audiences in Colorado's Red Rocks Theater last week happily lapped it up. Occasion: a Colorado Centennial production of Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West, staged in the natural sandstone Red Rocks amphitheater with all the flamboyance of a wide-screen western...
...week, and some of the racy electronics and missile favorites were paying nothing at all. Meanwhile, back in the bond market, the tax-exempts were yielding a handsome 3.8%, while the highest-grade corporates also moved above 4½%. The yield spread between common stocks and bonds was uncommonly wide. Classically, the situation called for a move out of stocks and into bonds. But investors-wagering heavily on the economy's growth, figuring on more inflation and preferring capital gains to dividends-showed no signs of hopping off Wall Street's snorting bull...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey...