Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...TIME reported that one Dave Hatcher said that he preferred Brown to Princeton, as he thought that Princeton is too much of a party school. We at Brown will not sit idle while aspersions are cast at our alma mater. While Brown certainly will give him a better education, it should not go unsaid that if anyone in the Ivy League throws parties, Brown throws them bigger and better. RICHARD R. WANDMACHER Providence...
...Arvada, Colo., pretty Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of a young plumber, registered as a Republican. Last November Shirley Jean wrote President Eisenhower and Harry Truman asking their advice on how to cast her first vote. Truman sent her a grumpy reply, advising her to read her history books, but Ike responded by aiming a national fund-raising address at the young woman and thrusting her into the national spotlight (TIME, Feb. 8). What finally made up her mind to be a Republican, she said, was unfair Democratic criticism of Ike over the U-2 incident...
...most important echoes came from Britain, where the failure of the détente with Russia cast new doubts on the wisdom of Britain's long refusal to associate itself with the Common Market Six except on British terms. Speaking to the Assembly of the Western European Union last week, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs John Profumo unexpectedly announced that Britain had decided "to consider anew" the idea of membership in the European Coal and Steel Community as well as EURATOM, the atomic pool of the Common Market...
...longer useful for flags, the stars and stripes on shirts and sheets strike visiting U.S. tourists as a desecration. In Washington last week Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter introduced a bill to stop the manufacture, sale or gift of any type of U.S. flag where its use might "cast contempt." It will probably go through, but until then, Haiti's peasantry will continue to look like a Navy recruiting poster...
West Side Story. Back in town with essentially the same cast, this milestone dance-musical of 1957 follows its serious theme-gang warfare in Manhattan slums -as movingly as ever...