Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Storming out of the crowded hall, the 41-year-old Tshombe ordered his plane prepared for departure. Next day, he called in the press, fell to his knees to demonstrate for the benefit of photographers how "vassal" Kasavubu "bowed to the U.N." Then he announced he was leaving for home, and that the other Congo leaders were not worth talking to anyway. "For the last ten months, while we in Katanga have been working to build up our country, they have been loafing around chasing power, cars and women," sneered Tshombe. With that, Tshombe headed for the airport, where...
...Melhado (autumn), wife of Investment Broker Frederick Melhado; and Viscountess de Rosière (winter), Ohio-born wife of French-born Jewelry Sales Executive Viscount Paul de Rosière. Gentle spring: evergreen Actress Joan Fontaine. Commented Cosmetics Entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden from her ringside table at the Plaza Hotel benefit: "We had all forgotten that charity can be such...
...hasty attempt to deprecate the success of Russia's man-carrying spaceship, President Kennedy got lost in an old scientific daydream. Cheap fresh water extracted from salt water, he said, would benefit humanity enough to dwarf any other scientific accomplishment. This hope, that desalted sea water may make the deserts bloom as the rose, has long been popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came...
...United States-what is elected as one. Confidently voting their judgment, Frankfurter, the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred H. Barr Jr., and a committee of other top-rank critics and collectors last week put on display at Manhattan sWildenstein Gallery 69 paintings and drawings, in a benefit show simply and coolly labeled "Masterpieces...
...member art committee displayed remarkable unanimity in balloting on paintings to meet the indefinable requirement of the chosen theme-that they be masterpieces. But it was plainly a task for taste-and thus one that would have been cheerfully shared by the woman in whose memory the benefit collection was organized, New York City Art Patron and Philanthropist Adele Rosenwald Levy, who died 13 months...