Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puzzling Problems. The Briton and the Frenchman had come to the U.S. for the U.N.'s tenth anniversary ceremonies in San Francisco, but before the birthday party, Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay had to discuss a puzzling problem in world diplomacy: the true reason for the Communists' sudden switch from cold-warriors to peace-shouters. Standing in Sir Pierson's paneled library. Dulles gave the U.S. evaluation of what had caused the Kremlin to accept an Austrian treaty that was less favorable than the one it had rejected out of hand a year before...
...states men came and went. Not only in Washington and New York, but across the nation, citizens got unaccustomed glimpses of the traveling salesmen of East and West who had come to the U.S. to consult on plans for a changing world and to at tend the tenth birthday party of the United Nations (see UNITED NATIONS...
...Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts honored Spanish-born Painter Pablo Picasso with a panoramic exhibition of his works, thus marked his 75th birthday and the 54th anniversary of his arrival in France. Picasso himself, waiting for the crowd to thin before going to his own show, holed up in his new Cannes villa with a mysterious new girl friend, fortyish, known as Madame Z. As a long line of limousines poured out specially invited guests on opening day, a grim little old lady, topped by a black straw hat cluttered with artificial flowers, showed up, herself looking like...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, long in the habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death of democracy"). Then, with boyish glee, he burbled: "As for me, if I felt any better I couldn't stand...
...Heard, on the first birthday of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, that there are four heart-lung machines and about 90 artificial kidneys now in use in the U.S. to tide patients over crises in surgery or systemic poisoning. President Willem J. Kolff of Cleveland showed a disposable artificial kidney made from beer cans, window screening and sausage casing. Cost: about...