Word: dual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...
...understanding among students and the faculty as to the nature of a Catholic's religion. And this is frequently compounded by an insufficient awareness in Catholics themselves of the implications of their position as members of the Church and at the same time students of the University. This dual misunderstanding often leads to the skeptic's sneer at the intellectual vacuity of Catholicism, and breeds in some Catholics a shy defensive attitude, or even a position of religious relativism...
...York's First Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates financing agent, and 2) a Budget Bureau consultant on the contract. Then Attorney General Herbert Brownell went on to rule that Dixon-Yates investors were not even entitled to payment for costs already incurred, because Wen-zell's dual role made the contract invalid. The Dixon-Yates utility firms went to court to recover the costs...
...decision: the Budget Bureau, aware that Wenzell was a First Boston officer, employed him to expedite the contract to further the Administration policy of fostering private rather than public power. That policy, held the court, was "perfectly legitimate." Argued the two dissenting judges: Wenzell's dual role involved a conflict of interest that violated "dominant public policy...
Chrysler Corp. reported total May sales of 70,814, up 19% over last year. To add more zip to sales, Chrysler's President Lester Lum Colbert made some drastic dealer shifts-and readied a new car. The company has known for some time that its dual system of De Soto-Plymouth and Dodge-Plymouth dealerships, has seriously hurt Plymouth sales, since the dealers were inclined to push the higher-priced cars on which they made more money. To correct this, the De Soto and Plymouth divisions were merged, with Plymouth to be top dog. Chrysler last week asked...