Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bermuda shorts and H.A.A. sweat-shirts have become the order of the day as the House winter athletic teams began their first practice session at the I.A.B. and Watson Rink this week...
Norstad's proposal was an outgrowth of the U.S.-United Kingdom agreement at Bermuda last March, in which the U.S. promised to provide Britain with IRBMs (but without nuclear warheads*), to replace the firepower of its dwindling military manpower. It will be placed before the December meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Paris...
During their Bermuda conference last March, the President and Macmillan informally agreed to future meetings; a Macmillan trip to Washington had since been tentatively planned for next February. The speedup, arranged through regular State Department-Foreign Office channels (the President did not directly speak to Macmillan by telephone), came only after Russian threats had placed the cold war on a new and urgent basis. Subjects on the Eisenhower-Macmillan agenda...
...subject of the Reina del Pacifico and her grounding off Bermuda: in referring to certain passengers' proceeding by alternative .routes to the United Kingdom, you stated [July 22] that the third-class passengers who asked for air passages were told that they could go ahead-at their own expense. This, we would mention, is a gross inaccuracy, as all passengers, first, cabin and third, were informed that alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers...
...gondolier straw hat, a cross between the U.S. male's straw boater (now enjoying a booming revival) and the Venetian gondolier's wide-brimmed hat. But fashion is as fickle on the beaches as in the salons of Paris. College girls spending their spring vacations in Bermuda and Nassau this year discovered the virtues of the man's straw hat, enthusiastically spread the fad through whole campuses-and delighted straw hat manufacturers. "We were tired of the big straw hats of last year," says one girl, "so we simply picked a smaller, lighter hat. It happened...