Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger by kneeling along the path and offering him flowers...
...tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when...
...simply floated to the top on the strength of longevity), Alway had gone scouting for new blood, and he quickly hired a dazzling array of new men for top jobs, e.g., Pediatrician Norman Kretchmer from Cornell, Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg from the University of Wisconsin, Biochemist Arthur Kornberg (along with several members of Kornberg's department) from Washington University of St. Louis. So far, Alway has replaced three department chiefs, created a new department (genetics), added eleven new full professors...
...This spring, when the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's President Donald McGannon took charge of the N.A.B. code review board, offenders were told to stop talking about hemorrhoids and other such "intimately personal" problems or forfeit the code seal of approval, but 20 stations decided that they could get along without it. Further, McGannon's review board went on to criticize commercials for toilet paper, deodorants, laxatives, etc. In a confidential report shown to station owners and trade associations, McGannon's board finds much amiss with commercials for such privacy products. Items...
...arrangements were pure Mao dynasty. All 19 excursionists were carefully chosen on the basis of docility: reporters from Pravda, Tass, Poland's Trybuna Ludu, North Korean news agencies, Britain's Red Sheep Alan Winnington (the London Daily Worker), along with Author Anna Louise Strong, doyenne of U.S. Red-liners, who was accused by the Kremlin in 1949 of working against Communism-an error for which Moscow later abjectly apologized. (For the Tibetan junket an oxygen tent was taken along for 74-year-old Journalist Strong, but the heady political climate of captive Tibet made it unnecessary...