Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After husking a torrid version of Lover, Come Back to Me, Secretarial Student Pat Williams, 18, went "numb" with astonishment upon hearing herself acclaimed. Winning the beauty derby over nine white finalists, the well-stacked (36-24½-37) new Miss Sacramento, first Negro ever to wear the local crown, now aspires to the Miss California and Miss America titles...
...Isaac Jogues Novitiate in Wernersville, Pa., went on to Woodstock College in Maryland, was ordained in June 1956. After two more years of theological study, his superiors asked Father John Francis Laboon Jr., S.J., if he had any preference in assignment. Said he: "I'd like to get back into submarines...
...Africa, India and Southeast Asia, nationalism has forced the Christian churches to speed up the process of turning control over to native churchmen. Just back from a two-month tour of African missions, Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles said last week that the whole future of Christianity in that part of the world depends on the speed and success of the handover. "We have failed in that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more...
...provides brilliant virtuoso movements for the entire ballet corps, the Bolshoi keeps the original four acts and focuses on the soloists, with the corps often planted in mere statuesque rows and curves. The traditional Swan Lake ending, which is authentically portrayed by the Royal Ballet-the Princess changed back into a swan, forever lost to the world-is drastically altered in the Bolshoi version...
Timofeyeva relied on a broader, more flowing style, achieved some of her most moving effects in the series of soaring Act II lifts and in the last-act duet in which she hovered back to consciousness on feet as tremulous as a butterfly's wing. And where Plisetskaya had omitted the famous 32 fouettés (snapped turns) in the "Black Swan Pas de Deux," Timofeyeva whipped them off with a bravura that brought the house alive with a roar...