Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publicity. She was going to establish that marriage "is no whimsy," and would fight any "cheap mail-order divorce." Furthermore, she said, "I intend to be a Mrs. Rockefeller until the day I die." Winthrop's $1,000,000 trust fund for her was "revocable" and "not worth the paper it was written on." And while poking around the apartment, reporters said, she was shocked to find photographs of other women, as well as unfamiliar bathing suits and lingerie. From Little Rock came only a frosty reply to press inquiries: "Mr. Rockefeller has adopted a policy of refusing...
While Sir Laurence Olivier and his actress wife Vivien Leigh gave a dinner party at their Buckinghamshire farm (the guests: Composer Sir William Walton, Actor Sir Ralph Richardson and their ladies), burglars got into the house. Using Olivier's own ladder, they looted a bedroom of $19,600 worth of jewels and furs. Gentleman Farmer ("I keep a few pigs") Olivier recalled that his London home had been robbed in March, decided: "It is just not our year." Jockey Sir Gordon Richards, on the other hand, was convinced that there is some honor among thieves when his stolen spurs...
...Osmond and Smythies think it would be worth while to do a lot of chemical and biochemical testing of mescaline and schizophrenics. After that, they say, either their theory will join countless others on the scrap heap of psychiatry or the cause of schizophrenia will be known...
Music of Poland, Vol. II (Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio conducted by Jerzy Kolaczkowski; Vanguard). Talented Composer Witold Lutoslawski is heard for the first time in the U.S. on this disk, and is well worth a hearing. His Little Suite succeeds neatly in integrating elements of fun, folk themes and his own considerable personality. Modern in effect, but easy to take...
...last five years, total air force expenditures have been under $2.5 billion, and the industry estimates that only a fourth of its present capacity is being used. Only 1,000 planes a year of all types are being manufactured. But the future looks brighter. NATO has ordered $86 million worth of Mystère IV interceptors; the U.S. has placed $30 million in offshore contracts for Republic Thunderjet and Thunderstreak air frames, and the British are trying out the Breguet doubledecker 117-passenger transports...