Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remembering his survival training, he quickly kicked off his shoes, stripped off his blue denim dungarees and knotted the pants legs. By popping the pants sharply onto the water, waistband first, he trapped an air bubble in each leg-and there, with his improvised float, he bobbed in the black sea. Isbell's lights faded in the distance ("I guess that was about the alonest I ever felt"). For a while, he tried swimming, but every time he moved he would churn up the phosphorescence and worry about sharks...
...week's end, Nikita Khrushchev returned to Moscow from a brief Black Sea vacation, and made it back from Moscow's airport to the Kremlin courtyard in an eight-seat Soviet helicopter, which he pronounced "roomier and more comfortable" than Ike's Sikorsky. Next on Khrushchev's travel plans: a flight to Budapest to attend that mockery of "domestic jurisdiction," the Hungarian Communist Party Congress...
...essay On Liberty, considered eccentricity in a nation's character to be "proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained." Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his life to exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons in the past month have found...
...furor that began four months ago when four U.S. sergeants stationed at Izmir were arrested on charges of currency black-marketing, and two in turn accused Turkish cops of torturing them (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), drags on in the slow-moving Turkish courts. While the State Department, in deference to its NATO partner, tried to hush up the whole affair, NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad dispatched from Paris a personal investigating team headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, a onetime top FBIman, who was commissioned an Air Force Reserve colonel in 1948 to do police work. Carroll...
Boff & Grunt. His frankness interlarded with frenzy and his open face barred with a villainous black mustache, Appel happily plays the abstract-expressionist role. Painting, he says, "is a battle! Boff goes the paint! It explodes! It's an adventure! It's destroying what I've done before!" At the easel, he swirls, smears and stabs with tubes in mid-squeeze, a palette knife, his hands and, occasionally, a brush, grunting as he works. In a few hours, the picture is done: a wet, gaudy mass of color violently heaped and stirred. Sometimes it is a brutally...