Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under a bright sun that was AWOL during his visit last month, Dwight Eisenhower last week stepped from Columbine III at Augusta's Bush Field. "Boy," said he, "this is better weather." Budget problems pressing, his strenuous mission to eleven countries only three weeks away, the President was eager to relax. Sped to the Augusta National Golf Club, he swapped his brown business suit for slacks and a sports shirt, was on the practice tee within 15 minutes...
Though one Kenya African leader grumped that his people would never be satisfied until Jomo Kenyatta is free, and some white settlers were alarmed at the impending release of hundreds of Mau Mau murderers, Harold Macmillan's new Colonial Secretary, bright, ambitious Iain Macleod, intends a bolder, more liberal approach to Britain's colonial problems in Africa. As one indication of the new trend in British colonial policy, Prime Minister Macmillan himself drove out to London Airport last week to welcome one of the most outspoken of new African leaders, President Sékou Touré of newly...
...Connecticut College before switching to Colby in 1957. More "intellectual curiosity" is new President Strider's aim. It would not have been possible if Colby had not risen to the quality in J. Seelye Bixler. Colby no longer gets its students mainly from Maine; it is drawing bright applicants from all over the East. Says outgoing President Bixler, who will teach religion at the University of Hawaii next year: "They aren't all topnotch students, but most of them are eager. People around here are now responding to ideas...
...them-notably in a pantomime of bare-fanged marriage-they are splendid. Lahr in a plane or at a stage door, Walker in a hash house or the Garden of Eden, also have their moments. But too often, though they make their lines brighter, they cannot make them bright. TV's Shelley Berman does nicely in a character-part telephone monologue, but falls flat as a straight man, and the rest of the show alternates dullness and noise when it does not combine them...
With the effects of the steel strike still to be felt, bright earnings news last week also came from General Motors Corp., whose third-quarter profits doubled over the same period a year ago, and boosted nine months' net to $2.55 per share v. $1.39 last year...