Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that it is not altogether surprising that the vice-President had no chance to use the Seal; he was no Crimed, and therefore a Philistine. "There is one sure road to the White House," is an aphorism which you must have heard, and the truth of it is indisputable. That is what things like Winter Competitions are for: to engender those who sit around summit tables...
...sales soared To test its 1961 refrigerators, Westinghouse shipped them to nine representative dealers for home testing. The dealers found that the refrigerator doors began to bend and leak air, a design flaw that factory inspection had failed to turn up. Los Angeles Waste King Corp. employs Mrs. Sylvia White, a sociologist, to represent the consumer on the spot. She has shut down a production line because she concluded that a new change was not an improvement, explaining with housewifely common sense: "Engineers can design anything. But you may have to stand on your head to make it work...
...Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native...
While keeping his private zoo, Durrell, 35, has not neglected his writing. In fact, he shows his brother's gift for impaling the vivid butterfly of reality on the point of a pen. Only a very special zoologist could look at a white-bodied, black-footed mongoose and observe: "She was sleek, sinuous, and svelte, and reminded me of a creamy-skinned Parisienne belle-amie clad in nothing more than two pairs of black silk stockings...
...White Paper (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In the premiere of a promising series, Chet Huntley tackles "The U-2 Affair" from Pilot Powers' ill-fated flight to his Moscow trial, with a stopover at the abortive summit meeting...