Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artistic preferences upheld when the United States Information Agency, stung by the boss's mild criticism of the modern art in the big U.S. fair in Moscow (TIME, July 13), hastily dropped its ban on U.S. art prior to 1918, gathered up 25 to 30 famed American canvases painted before the 20th century, rushed them off to Russia to supplement the moderns in the big show. Among the late starters: Gilbert Stuart (one of his portraits of Washington), George P. A. Healy (his study of a beardless Lincoln), Copley, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, Remington, Mary Cassatt...
Then, something happened. From the radio came tense bulletins: Flight 102-Pan American's London-bound Boeing 707 jet-taking off at 8:37 from Long Island's Idlewild Airport, had lost two wheels from its four-wheeled left landing gear. There were 113 people aboard. The big 707 was circling, preparing for a .crash landing. The whole city seemed to sit bolt upright. From Manhattan, from Queens and Brooklyn on the western bulge of Long Island, whole families poured into cars and headed for Idlewild. Within minutes, thousands of autos were turtle-crawling the highway mazes leading...
...pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...
...Dominican dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo poses an unhappy dilemma for the U.S. and the responsible democracies of Latin America. Nobody wants to support Trujillo's tyranny-but inter-American treaties promise him joint aid in the event of outside aggression. Everybody would like to see the Dominican Republic turned into a working democracy-but the anti-Trujillo bands that stormed the Dominican Republic last month were led by Communist-liners, offering the prospect of chaos rather than freedom. Battling out the dilemma in tense sessions at the Organization of American States in Washington last week, the OAS member...
...royal visit to Chicago lasted only 14 hours, but it was the most lavish 14 hours of pageantry in Chicago's history, and the warmest reception Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have had so far on their North American tour...