Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sleepless Nights. The testing time had come. Caught up in the sand-blown vortex were all the spiraling, competing ambitions that agitate the Middle East. Jordan's real estate might not be worth much, but denying it to someone else mattered a great deal. Seen simply, the issue was between the nations like Iraq and Saudi Arabia which have chosen Washington, and Egyypt and Syria which are playing with Moscow. But nothing is ever that simple in the Middle East. King Saud likes Ike. but does not defy Nasser. Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly has himself flown...
FIRST MEXICO AIR ROUTE for U.S. line nonstop from New York and Washington to Mexico City is expected to go to Pan American World Airways. CAB is almost certain to accept its examiner's recommendation against Eastern Air Lines and American Airlines for route worth $10 million in ticket sales yearly. Nonstop trip now is made only by Air France...
...chief executive officer of American Smelting & Refining Co., succeeding Roger W. Straus, 65, Eisenhower Republican and founder of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. A product of Yale and Harvard Business School, Brownell has worked for American Smelting since 1927. Into his job as president moved R. Worth Vaughan, 53. ¶ Robert S. Oelman, 47, executive vice president of the National Cash Register Co. since 1950, was named president, succeeding Stanley C. Allyn, 65, who moved up to board chairman but remains chief executive officer. Dayton-born Oelman finished at Dartmouth summa cum laude in 1931, spent 18 months...
...granddaddy of deadpan and one of the four or five masters of the sight gag produced by Hollywood during the silent days. In the sequences adapted from the old two-reelers, these gags prove as good as ever they were, and provide the public with about ten minutes' worth of belly-shaking fun. But when this earnest little biopus turns from Keaton's silent comedies to his noisy domestic tragedies, the guffaws turn to unmitigated guff. Donald O'Connor, who plays the title role, does pretty well with the pratfalls, but when it comes to imitating...
...scientist examines the world through new instruments and methods, and thus is a great agent both in creating and ordering. The historian, on the other hand, is concerned mainly with ordering man's experience, with identifying things that are worth discussing, and with sorting out and categorizing tangible, significant events...