Word: ails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Votes & Oil. As in Teheran, elections were going on ail over Iran. Though crude and undemocratic by Western standards, the balloting process fits the pattern for Iran, which is backward, deeply infiltrated by a Communist underground and inexperienced at combating the enemies of democracy with democratic methods. The current elections were efficient and peaceful by contrast; in Mohammed Mossadegh's 1952 elections, the balloting lasted five months and at least 50 were killed...
...desk, Sir Winston Churchill slipped away for a two-week vacation at the Riviera villa owned by Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Puckishly traveling incognito as "Mr. Hyde," although 300 well-wishers gathered at London Airport to see him off and several hundred more met him at Cap d'Ail, Sir Winston was accompanied by his daughter Mary and her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, two secretaries and three Scotland Yard inspectors. "Cap d'Ail has received its mayor in a fitting manner," he remarked as the townspeople cheered him as their "honorary mayor" (a title conferred a year...
...newspaper . . . Newspapers should continue to strive for as much objectivity as possible, but should have no taboos against 'interpretation' when [it] is necessary to an understanding of any happening . . . The trend will be toward more 'interpretation . . .' Who, what, where, when and why no longer answer ail the questions. 'What does it mean?' is an important question that newspapers will try, increasingly, to answer...
...Ail-Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead with Jack Carson, Louis Armstrong, Patsy Kelly...
...lanky Eli righthander had retired seven straight going into the seventh, and his two-run lead seemed secure. But Akillian led off the stretch frames with a lefty frights to deep left. When pinch. hitted Ail Switzer followed with a single to counter, Akillian came in and Beresford went...