Word: consent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury's Advise and Consent, which has led the bestseller list for nine weeks...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...
...until well along in 1960. Aware that Jack Kennedy could trounce him in mano a mano popularity contests, Symington is determined to stay out of primaries, and to do no campaigning in the Oregon primary, in which his name can be put on the ballot by petition without his consent. . If he loses in Oregon next May, he can explain that, after all, he was not even trying...
...stumbling blocks that wrecked the IATA conference last week were 1) when to cut, and 2) by how much. Under IATA rules every action requires unanimous consent of the lines involved, and each one, big or little, has an equal vote. The result was near-paralysis. As one delegate said: "It was not just a case of the jets v. the jetless. The voting was all over the lot by chaps with pistons, chaps with turboprops and chaps with both, not to speak of some who have jets on order and are now beginning to wonder how they are going...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...