Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such reports, and hundreds of others, flow every week into an uncarpeted, buff-walled office overlooking the Hudson River, 32 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. At her plain desk a kindly looking woman with china-blue eyes and a no-nonsense way of handling paperwork sifts the reports, ponders, scribbles notations. On her decisions depends the deployment of a worldwide spiritual army. Her title is appropriate to the task: she is Mother General Mary Columba, 63, of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, head of the U.S.'s biggest, most active Roman Catholic women's missionary...
...Catholic Church goes on, fueled by President Juan Peron's deep distaste for anything faintly resembling opposition. Last week the Interior Ministry banned a scheduled outdoor Mass and procession marking the end of the Marian Year. While a substitute indoor Mass was being celebrated at Buenos Aires' buff-colored cathedral, Peron and his top officials ostentatiously gathered at the airport to welcome Argentine Boxer Pascual Perez home from Japan, where he had won the flyweight (112-lb.) championship of the world. That same day, the Peron General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) ordered the "lay enthronement" of the late...
...creature comforts. First comes privacy: there are single and double rooms, and four-bed wards-nothing bigger. Every room is air-and sound-conditioned. Each has a two-way intercom system connecting with the nearest nurses' station, to save time, trouble, steps and tempers. Instead of hospital buff, most rooms are decorated with restful greys or greens, punctuated with cheery areas of brighter color. Pictures are changed often, but when the patient can stand the sight of one no longer, the nurse can turn its face to the wall (the back is a contrasting but harmonious color...
...about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom and gloom, you might think the welfare of the nation is for them merely a jolly game of blindman's buff...
...little estate outside Paris, where he fishes in his private lake, and a specially built ($8,570), emerald-green Salmson coupe, which he likes to try out at 100 miles an hour. For the French it means that Sidney is American jazz in the flesh. Explained one French jazz buff: "A lot of jazz musicians are known to the French, but it's Sidney who's known to the average person. He plays jazz like a gypsy...