Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender campaigned as a 100% Ikeman-but Ohioans still thought of him as a bell-ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican convention, and they overwhelmingly backed Governor Frank Lausche, a great vote-getter who managed to project his own honesty and humility (but little more), and thus seemed to rise above political partisanship...
...step down as soon as the President will let him go. A likely time for Wilson to resign: as soon as the complicated Defense budget has been approved by Congress (probably April). One possible successor: Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles, 62, a good administrator and longtime scientist-executive (Bell Labs), who has managed to keep himself out of the interservice trouble. Another: bald, short (5 ft. 7 in.), terrier-tough Charles S. Thomas, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, since 1954, the Secretary of the Navy who helped goad conservative Navy thinking toward such innovations as guided-missile ships...
Silence. In Denmark, at noon one day, every church bell in the country chimed in unison, and the nation (pop. 4,500,000) marked five minutes of silence (the last occasion was their deliverance from the Nazis). In Montevideo. Uruguay, students burned the Soviet consulate to the ground. In South Viet Nam, all 123 members of the Legislative Assembly paraded through the streets of Saigon, wearing mourning white in sympathy for Hungary. In Reykjavik, Icelanders roughed up a Communist Member of Parliament, and demands rose for a reconsideration of Iceland's decision to eject U.S. forces from the NATO...
...Bell Rings. The alarm bell did not ring until after Britain and France had already agreed to a cease-fire in Egypt, in the face of the expressed disapproval of other principal allies around the world and a 64-10-5 vote against them in U.N. Israel too had agreed to a ceasefire, but was waiting to exact a victor's satisfaction from Nasser...
Died. Robert James Woods, 52, chunky co-founder (in 1935) with the late Lawrence D. Bell (TIME. Oct. 29) of Bell Aircraft Corp., who designed the X-1 jet, the first plane to fly faster than sound (at Muroc, Calif., in 1947), of a heart attack; in Grand Island...