Word: talks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hand. Four weeks ago, after lunching with Liliane, Moumié excused himself, explained to her, "I have an important engagement. We're going to talk politics. You wouldn't be interested." When he returned late at night, he tossed fitfully, next morning awoke complaining of agonizing stomach pains. With a medical student's precision, he diagnosed his poison as thallium, a paralyzing ingredient in certain rat poisons. Hurried to a hospital and placed in an iron lung, he came out of a coma long enough to murmur "Red Hand," the name of a counterterrorist organization which operates...
...residence of Britain's Minister to the Holy See. To avoid any awkward moments, the Pope is expected to receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about may be trivialities, Dr. Fisher admitted last week, but, he added, "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities...
...peacock- blue sonata or red march from three notes offered him at random. Without lapsing into triteness or parody, he has an extraordinary ability to suggest geographical locale, whether it is Scotland, Spain, or the American West, which has never been more eloquently described in melody than in I Talk to the Trees from Paint Your Wagon. He is sometimes accused of being derivative, but this is rarely the case. Preparing for Wagon, as Singer David Brooks recalls it, Lerner played a record of Ghost Riders in the Sky for Fritz over and over again, then Loewe sent one more...
...single statistic has cast more gloom over-or caused more talk about-the state of the economy than the weekly operating rate of the steel industry. When the rate, expressed as a percentage of the total capacity of the industry, started to drop last winter, it stirred the first major doubts about the course of business; its failure to rise has amplified recession fears. Last week the rate was scheduled at 51.7% of capacity, the lowest level for a nonholiday week...
...cool, efficient manager of the modern stripe, Donner is a strong believer in team talk. He rarely makes a decision without extensive consultation with G.M.'s experts, shares responsibility to a unique degree with President John F. Gordon, a crack production man. By staying in the background and avoiding public controversy, Donner has also toned down G.M.'s earlier reputation for corporate arrogance...