Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd parallel. But in 1902, in order to avoid splitting tribes in the Wadi Haifa and Halaib regions, the Egyptians agreed to pass to the Sudan administrative control of two areas which jut northward above the parallel (see map). In the past 56 years Egypt had never claimed them. Nasser followed up his first note with another announcing that...
Accent of Emptiness. Mies van der Rohe believes that "structure is spiritual"; his aim is to express the skyscraper's essential steel cage as dramatically as possible and with a maximum of economy. In the Seagram building, he did this with deceptive simplicity. To avoid the stairstep building plan that Manhattan architects have overused to meet zoning requirements (the tower must be only 25% of the site area), Mies sacrificed valuable Park Avenue frontage, threw open a wide plaza. This gave him an opportunity to create an accent of emptiness, at the same time gave his building a dramatic...
...Brooklyn-born Gloria Davy, 25, made her first musical splash four years ago as the replacement for Leontyne Price in Porgy and Bess. She toured in the role from San Francisco to Cairo, finally abandoned Bess to avoid being typed. She studied Aïda, sang the title role in the opera house at Nice but had never attempted it with a big-league company before her debut at the Metropolitan Opera last week. Soprano Davy was thrown in with a strong cast-Kurt Baum as Radames, Irene Dalis as Amneris. Leonard Warren as Amonasro-which might well have overpowered...
Solid-fuel rockets avoid most of this waste of energy by burning their fuel very fast-in a few seconds, if desirable. Instead of struggling painfully off the ground as liquid-fuel rockets do, the solid-fuel bird can be gone in a flash. Its higher speed while still in the dense lower atmosphere costs something in aerodynamic drag, but since solid-fuel rockets have no pumps, valves or plumbing, they are more compact and can slip through the air more easily...
Visit to Mount Olympus. Why has Getty stayed away from the U.S. for almost seven years? His critics insist it is to avoid either taxes (Getty pays full U.S. taxes on his personal income of more than $1,000,000) or lawsuits by his ex-wives. But Getty is on friendly terms with them, takes care of them financially. They speak well of him, and wife No. 4, who gets $1,000 a month, is writing the story of his life. Getty has his own explanation: "There are plenty of capable people in my companies who know the Stateside...