Word: abandoning
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...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. For the common consent achieved at Bangkok, the U.S. thanks the (literally) shirtsleeve diplomacy practiced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who first conceived SEATO. But the basic factor underlying success in both places is confidence that the U.S. will neither encroach upon nor abandon its friends and allies...
...Ninotchka, Cinemactress Hildegarde Neff is exotic and pleasing enough to get by without a voice; as Ninotchka's Hollywood agent of a beau, oldtime Cinemactor Don Ameche has an excellent voice and everything else to match. And late in the evening, a Moscow jam session achieves a gay abandon that the show, by then, needs as badly as the U.S.S.R. does...
...movie that consists of one long chase complicated by another. The first begins with a smash-bang crash-out of six convicts from prison. The second begins soon after, when their wounded leader promises them a share of the loot he has hidden away if they do not abandon him. While the crooks pursue the hidden loot, the police pursue the crooks...
...Abandon. Last week Bader was in the midst of a U.S.-Canada inspection tour. While in Ottawa, he met some of his Battle-of-Britain buddies at the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs' Association. As old flyers will, he got to reminiscing about the old days when aviation was still a sport...
What he missed most, said Bader, was "the gay abandon of the prewar days, with a little clubhouse and a field with light airplanes on it, people having tea under sunshades, and all that pleasant peaceful scene." Flying then was "something exciting and different, and we all wanted to go up in an airplane. It was of course a two-seater, open-cockpit.job . . . Our ardor might have been damped if our first experience of flying was sitting in a pressurized tube looking out of a small side window with 40 other people . . . There is far more exhilaration, fun and impression...