Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next stop was Chequers, in the green vales of Buckinghamshire just 40 miles northwest of London, country home of British Prime Ministers since 1917. Opened briefly last week to newsmen for the first time, Chequers, as Harold Macmillan said, is "a good place to work and a good place to rest." Dwight Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan did both, at one point using Presidential Physician Howard Snyder as their range pole for golf shots on Chequers' broad lawns, at other times going behind closed doors for serious talks...
...vast northern "Tomorrow Country" (TIME, Aug. 3), the 1,500,000-sq.-mi. Yukon and Northwest Territories, a happy discovery served notice on Canada that tomorrow is coming sooner than it thinks. On black-fly-infested tundra 175 miles above Dawson City, Chance No. 1, the first gas-oil well in Canada near the Arctic Circle, blew in with a roar. The discovery was made by Western Minerals Co., which belongs to Calgary Lawyer-Oilman Eric Harvie. Gushed the Toronto Globe and Mail: "A landmark in northern history." Sixty-one years after it struck gold, the Yukon had struck black...
...Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, riding the crest of the boom, reported its own record, a two-week nonholiday gross of $404,056, for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, well over the total of runner-up High Society. Additional Music Hall intelligence: Northwest's star, Gary Grant, is the Music Hall's male favorite; he has appeared there in 23 pictures that ran for a total of 75 weeks. Closest male competitor: Fred Astaire, with 14 pictures, 48 weeks...
...North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
...North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Cary Grant up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason among them...