Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communist government notified New Zealand Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest, that owing to unexplained "inadequate conditions,'' he would not be allowed back in Tibet for another go at the great peak...
...Back in Hollywood for the first time since 1949, when she flew off to make movies and love with Roberto Rossellini. Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, accompanied by her third husband, Producer Lars Schmidt, flashed her cloudless Nordic smile on newsmen. And what of the rumor that Ingrid was pregnant again? Her parry: "That is really a question between God, my husband and myself...
...quite sure why the unleashed scholars establish their beachhead each year at Fort Lauderdale-an East Coast resort town of 63,000 with a perceptible percentage of retired oldsters. But ever since the town invited students to something called a "swimming forum" in 1938, they have swarmed back each year. Some motel owners are leary of the students; a room rented to two of them at sundown will be sardined with a dozen by dawn. At least one dine-and-dance-oasis proprietor has declared her roadhouse off-limits to the college crowd...
...desperate waitresses in the main cabaret of Las Vegas' Tropicana Hotel seemed to realize that visiting Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor was not the star of the show. "What can I serve you in the way of triples?" they asked, as they tried to turn the customers' minds back to the main business of the house. "You'll need three drinks to use up your minimum, and I can't serve you anything once Mr. Fisher starts to sing...
Inevitably the press-conference talk got back to the third member of the triangle. What if Debbie continued to frown on a quick divorce? Her interlocutory decree, obtained in Los Angeles, still had almost a year to run before it was final. "Debbie was very much hurt at first," said Elizabeth Taylor, out of the wisdom that comes from many a wilted romance. "I think the hurt has now left, and that she will consent to Eddie getting a divorce here." Having reassured both herself and her public, Liz left for her $500-a-week quarters at the Hidden Well...