Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maine's U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith is in close touch with U.S. military reserve programs. Commissioned after World War II, she is now, at 59, a lieutenant colonel in the WAF reserve. Her administrative assistant, William C. Lewis Jr., is an ardent Air Force reservist ("about 90 days' " training in the past twelve months). He was passed over for promotion from colonel to brigadier general last spring-despite the Senator's persistent efforts on his behalf. Last week, when the promotions of eight other reserve colonels came up for approval by the Senate Armed Services Committee...
Hotheaded partisans of Rebel Fidel Castro tried to close down the Cuban economy last week, and quickly discovered that well-paid workers do not become ardent revolutionaries. For six days, workers in pro-rebel Santiago de Cuba held firmly to their spontaneous general strike (TIME, Aug. 12). then gradually drifted back to their jobs. Most Havana workers, making near-record wages, ignored the call. Going up were four new skyscraper hotels. A new superhighway was snaking west from the city along the sea front, and underneath Havana Bay, a 20-lane tunnel needed only five more months of work before...
...escaped by "forming a coterie of informal favorites, to whom she gave rich rewards and positions and with whom she danced, sported and gossiped, openly mocking the established grandees of Versailles. With young Axel Fersen, officer son of a Swedish general, she began an ardent love affair that lasted with mutual devotion to her dying day. Few details of their intimacy have survived, but of the truth of the romance, for a long time disputed, Castelot leaves no doubt...
Nancy Wickwire is a beautiful and compelling Roxane; but she should look older at the end, for Rostand jumped ahead 15 or 16 years here, as Shakespeare had done in A Winter's Tale. Michael Higgins is excellent as the ardent but inarticulate Christian; he can convey earnestness as well as anyone in the company. Michael Lewis is a strong and brusque Comte de Guiche. Sorrell Booke makes a lovable Ragueneau, the baker whose heart lies in trying to write verse rather than in selling pastry (did anyone ever better deserve the name of poetaster?). And there are other laudable...
...Ascot, on a fashionable beach at Cannes, at a lavish masquerade ball in Venice, or amidst panoplies of Oriental splendor as devoted followers balanced his weight in gifts of diamonds, gold or platinum on Moslem feast days. Readers of the sports page knew the Aga Khan as an ardent turfman whose stables had produced five Derby winners. (The day before his death, a thoroughbred named Damseesa, carrying his flashy red and green silks, romped home an easy 14 to 1 winner at Paris' Le Tremblay.) Gossipists eagerly followed his own progress through four marriages, and the gaudier romances...