Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin America (a Rockefeller specialty) : In Dallas, he came out for a broad new Latin America program, including "economic union," stepped-up cultural exchange, and "imaginative" measures to deal with Latin America's lag in education and health...
...first," recalls Director Penn of the Seesaw rehearsal, "she could hardly find the stage. She couldn't stand. She couldn't turn. She'd play with her back to the audience. She was too broad and too vulgar. Even the lawyers and agents connected with the show said, 'She's no good; dump her.' " But Penn had already recognized something Anne's critics had not: she took direction admirably. "I even had to tell her where the jokes were, but once was enough." On the road Gibson would "write a funny line...
...scientist skillfully brewing one wonder drug after another. But Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, long has had ambitions to paint a different picture -of an industry that fixes prices too high. Last week, opening an investigation of drugmakers, the Keef got in his broad strokes as soon as nervous industry witnesses settled uncomfortably in their hot seats...
...minutes after being placed on the market, the first public offering of 1,000,000 shares of Transitrun Electronic Corp. at $36 each was snapped up by investors. Not since the first public sale of 10.2 million Ford Motor Co. shares in 1956 has a stock issue attracted such broad public demand. Transitron quickly jumped to $49 per share in over-the-counter trading, closed the week at $43 per share. To Transitron's owners, David and Leo Bakalar. went $34.4 million for part of their interest in the third largest U.S. semiconductor producer (first: Texas Instruments Inc.; second...
Exit Society. Most U.S. heiresses got either what they wanted or what they deserved. At the hub of their international set was the portly, roguish Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and moneyed maidens with broad Midwestern accents found Queen Victoria's son much more democratic than Manhattan's formidable Mrs. Astor and her chosen 400. At one time, the prince was much smitten by a Cleveland-born Miss Chamberlain. She reportedly cooled his ardors with...