Word: ross
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Japanese fears, few big U.S. manufacturers took up the cudgels against them. Ross Siragusa, president of Admiral Corp.-which imports no components from Japan, but competes with firms that do-called for a U.S. boycott of Japanese products "as a counter-demonstration to the cancellation of the Japanese government's invitation to President Eisenhower." He pointed out that Japan sold more than 5,000,000 transistor radios in the U.S. in 1959, charged that jobs have been lost as a result of Japanese imports. Recently, the Japanese government announced plans to limit the export of transistors...
Even Without Ross...
While some of the sparkle of the Harold Ross days has gone, The New Yorker [May 16] is still the most civilized magazine published in this country...
...Ross, by British Playwright Terence (Separate Tables) Rattigan, opened last week with Alec Guinness as Lawrence of Arabia. A complex, 16-scene production, the play reaches brilliantly, perhaps too slickly, into its legendary hero's mind, illuminating but never completely resolving the essential enigma: Was Lawrence the spectacular hero who inspired and led the Arabs in their World War I revolt against the Turks, or was he a lying, unstable charlatan...
With the alias John Hume Ross, Lawrence sought anonymity at the height of his fame (1922) by joining the R.A.F. as an ordinary airman (his later and more famous pseudonym was Shaw). Playwright Rattigan's account begins in the barracks, uses a series of flashbacks to go at the hero's question: "Oh, Ross. How did I become you?" As Guinness of Arabia, Sir Alec is at his subtle, suggestive best, and even the physical resemblance is striking. In his radicalism, there is more than a hint of the showoff; in his sophistication, a climber's cunning...