Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph Campbell, 54, recently Atomic Energy commissioner, became Comptroller General of the U.S., under a recess appointment pending Senate confirmation. For the post of Congress' watchdog over executive spending, Certified Public Accountant Campbell has high professional credentials. As Columbia University's assistant treasurer, he negotiated $50 million worth of wartime Government contracts (for atomic research, midshipman training, etc.). In 1949, under Columbia President Dwight Eisenhower, he was made university treasurer, and last year Ike appointed Campbell to the AEC. Campbell's confirmation as comptroller is in doubt. For eight months House and Senate Republicans have stalemated each...
Villeda Morales, freed from the time-honored obligation of leading what would have been Honduras' 135th revolution, said in relief: "The presidency is not worth the life of a single Honduran." President Lozano converted Congress into a Council of State to draft a new constitution under which another, and more decisive election can be attempted - but probably not before...
...Renato Castellani, an Italian moviemaker (Two Cents Worth of Hope), had an idea: since Shakespeare had laid the story of his "star-crossed lovers" in Verona, why not actually photograph it there and, where necessary, in other Italian cities whose stones are better preserved? Why not set a Renaissance passion in a Renaissance scene? And why not let all this young love be made, for a change, by young lovers...
...president); they would put up 10% of the cost and Ward's would finance the rest, permit the officers to pay for the stock over a certain period. He also described a plan to transfer Ward's real estate and 589 stores to a subsidiary firm worth $50 million-and distribute its stock to shareholders through a tax-free "spin...
...Seaton; Paramount) is the screen version-and a great improvement-of Clifford Odets ambiguous 1950 play about a middle-aged Broadway has-been and the two people who drag him up the comeback trail. It's a tough trail for the audience, too, but the view is well worth the trip...