Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Names make news. Last week these names made this news: On the palace-lined canals of Venice, thousands of Venetians cheered and waved handkerchiefs as a procession of black, gold-trimmed gondolas bore 300 blue bloods (including 48 princes and princesses, 60 counts and countesses, dozens of barons, a scattering of dukes and duchesses) to the tiny 16th century San Sebastiano Church, where pretty, Rome-born Princess Virginia Ira Fürstenberg, 15, married suave, Madrid-born Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe Langenburg...
...China in 1922, was too weak to tell a coherent story. "Communist radio," he mumbled. "Lamps and loudspeakers . . . for days and nights." His body told more. The bishop's beard had been partly plucked out; there were blood clots under the skin on his hands, and his wrists bore the marks of manacles. "I told them, 'My thoughts are my own, and you will not change them,' " he whispered later. "They failed. I would never change my mind...
...Detroit nightclub one night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...
Anita Bjorg, playing the title role, deserves much of the credit for keeping Miss Julie from becoming the complete bore that it might have been. She and director Sjoberg have conceived Miss Julie as a character balanced on the edge of madness. Bjork's performance is particularly impressive in those moments when the balances seems to be lost altogether...
...Moslem Brotherhood's power to interfere with his aims. Six Moslem Brothers were hanged-one of the rare acts of bloodletting of the Nasser revolution. The Brotherhood's leadership was immobilized. By a curious coincidence, it was noted that a pamphlet put out by the Brotherhood bore traces of Naguib's hand. The genial general was asked to go, and meekly went into isolation in an expropriated palace on the Nile. Said Nasser: "He was a good man, though a simple one. He was really ignorant. Power spoiled...