Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Argentines woke up one morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos...
Along with her name, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, three-week-old second-born of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, acquired an identity card, a ration book, a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of cod-liver oil, duly presented by officials from the Westminster food office. Next day, Anne had her first outing, a tour around the garden at Clarence House in a black baby carriage, a hand-me-down from her brother, 22-month-old Prince Charles...
...four. In addition to its 29-school nucleus, S.U.N.Y. has absorbed two medical schools-the Long Island College of Medicine and the Syracuse University medical school-and two small postwar colleges, Champlain and Triple Cities. With last year's enrollment of 34,000, S.U.N.Y. had already become the second largest state university...
Born. To Tony Martin, 36, butter-voiced cinemactor and nightclub crooner, and Cyd Charisse, 26, ballerina turned movie dancer (Fiesta): their first child (her second), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tony. Weight...
...Margaret Sullavan, 41, husky-voiced star of stage (The Voice of the Turtle) and screen (No Sad Songs for Me); and Kenneth Arthur Wagg, 41, London businessman (malted milk); she for the fourth time (previous husbands: Actor Henry Fonda, Director William Wyler, Producer-Agent Leland Hayward), he for the second; on Long Island...