Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frenzy the 4,000 wildly excited Negroes who had come to greet him. "Kwaca! Kwaca! Kwaca!" they roared back, screaming the African nationalist slogan that means dawn (i.e., the beginning of freedom). They draped their hero in a ceremonial leopard skin, carried him on their shoulders to a car, yelled and beat tom-toms as he drove off, escorted by red-robed young "freedom fighters" on motorcycles. Thus last week, after 40 years of self-imposed exile, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 53-"savior, liberator and messiah"-came home...
Among the best of Da Costa's touches is the train scene: in a railroad car are nine traveling salesmen, some playing cards, others reading newspapers-the Wall Street Journal, selected by Da Costa as perfect for 1912 typography and makeup. During the long weeks of rehearsals, the salesmen, backed by a full orchestra, chanted an intricate number called Rock Island, passing phrases from one to the other in complex antiphony. As they spoke, the rhythms changed, grew faster and faster in time to the clackety-clack of the train...
Three of the four yachts were newly born, built especially for this event. Each was the product of minute designing and craftsmanship. The favorite: white-hulled Columbia, created by Olin Stephens, yachting's most successful designer in the last 20 years. Columbia was skippered by dashing Car and Yacht Racer Briggs Cunningham (TIME Cover, April 26, 1954), equipped with Ratsey sails made of a special new synthetic and financed by a New York Yacht Club syndicate headed by Manhattan Financier Henry Sears...
AUTO-LABELING LAW, signed by President Eisenhower, provides that each 1959 car carry tag telling model name, final assembly point, means of delivery to dealer, manufacturer's suggested retail price for auto and extras...
Automatic Transgression. In Columbus, Ohio, Raymond Pickens borrowed a 1952 Chevrolet from a used car dealer to try it out, drove it to a vacant lot, where police found him lifting out the motor with a chain hoist he had secured to a tree limb...