Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. E. Lansing Ray, 71, longtime editor and publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; of a heart attack; in Rye Beach, N.H. Ray sold the newspaper to Manhattan's S. I. Newhouse last spring (TIME, April 4), but remained as publisher...
...grass, and dazzling turquoise gadis (bolsters) were placed on the rugs. Reclining on the rugs and gadis, His Excellency Syed Amjad Ali, the Pakistani ambassador, sat in cross-legged splendor. He was dressed in gaudy sport clothes and a dark ten-gallon hat. A red and green silk beach umbrella shaded the ambassador from the direct touch of the cruel sun, and a swarm of sari-clad women from his household kept him and his guests plentifully supplied with cooling drinks...
...boys were part of a radical Christian experiment: the East Harlem Protestant Parish. With 21 other students (twelve boys, nine girls) from Colby, Swarthmore, Colgate, Union Theological Seminary and other Eastern and Midwestern colleges, they had forsaken beach or mountains to spend their summer vacations in one of the country's most densely populated, crime-ridden areas. Their mission: to practice Christianity...
They stood and watched the police parachute-drop demonstration, U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy and his two sons, Clinton, 14, and Daniel, 9. Then handsome Jack Peurifoy and the boys got into his robin's-egg-blue Ford Thunderbird and headed back to the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin, 85 miles southwest of Bangkok, for lunch. It was a holiday outing, a lark for the boys, and just the occasion for Peurifoy to open up with his prized Thunderbird. He gunned it up to 70 m.p.h. and left his four-jeep police escort behind. They were used...
Molotov Blushes. Molotov, getting into the act, took the Argentine ambassador and the Indonesian ambassador's wife out in another rowboat, but upset the boat when trying to beach it, and soaked everybody. "Molotov, you are a terrible sailor," said Defense Minister Zhukov, laughing heartily. "One should ride with you around the edge of the lake, not in the middle...