Word: aded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor's façade of unity was a sham, as everyone in Britain knew. As the Scarborough conference broke up, Laborite Rebel Nye Bevan-who hopes to be Britain's next Prime Minister but one-bested all comers in the constituency polls for a new National Executive Committee of the Labor Party. Three of his disciples, including fiery Mrs. Barbara Castle, were elected to serve alongside him on the 25-man committee. Defense Minister Manny Shinwell was beaten. Attlee's moderates, with the powerful bloc votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party...
...several ambulances drove through the gates carrying surgical equipment with which to turn the Palace's rococo Buhl Room into an operating theater. They had stood and watched Queen Mary and her eldest granddaughter Elizabeth drive into the courtyard and disappear behind the great grey façade, their faces unsmiling...
Cherchez la Femme. In Big Arm, Mont., Ade Wagner went fishing, caught a 3-ft. rattlesnake, then found that four of its rattles were coated with bright red nail polish...
Since it was brought to the U.S. at the turn of the century, the vast canvas has been mostly rolled up in storage. In 1944 it was bought by Forest Lawn, which has constructed for it a special "Hall of the Crucifixion." There, behind an Italian Gothic façade, in a 2,000-capacity auditorium complete with airconditioning, hearing aids, earthquake-proofing and an electronically synchronized light beam to identify some of the picture's 1,123 life-sized figures, a tape-recorded spiel will describe the painting six times a day, seven days a week...
...muscles. The disease called progressive muscular dystrophy is by no means rare: estimates of U.S. victims range from 100,000 to 200,000. Last week, the recently formed Muscular Dystrophy Association met in Manhattan, decided to try to raise $250,000, largely to push research by Dr. Ade T. Milhorat at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Its slogan: "Give hope to the hopeless...