Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just why anti-Communist Castillo Armas chose to hurry into such an obvious one-candidate election was a puzzler; it seemed unlikely that his motive was to try to force a rigid, Soviet-style show of unanimity out of the people. More likely, the election was scheduled to provide a form of constitutional legality for his regime before any strong opposition could develop. Ironically, all present signs show that he could have won a free and secret ballot just about as easily...
...example of colonial architecture which is the official residence of the Master of Adams. When the new Housemaster was chosen this summer his instructions were that in redecorating Apthrop he was to retain the traditional style of the official rooms but could decorate the private rooms as he chose. In consequence, visitors still find only somber propriety, unless perchance they should glimpse through an open door the Master's private dining room with its intricate gold patterns embossed on walls of vivid Chinese...
Labor, thrown out of office in 1949, subsequently chose Evatt to lead its fight to return to power, and he thus became its candidate for Prime Minister. The attempt failed by a nose in last spring's national elections, and left the party sharply divided between pro-and anti-Evatt factions. Just before election came the defection of Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrov and his wife (TIME, April...
...Washington, D.C., one morning last week, Principal Mildred Green of the Raymond elementary school solemnly walked into her auditorium, faced her audience of new pupils, and calmly began a special opening-day speech. She chose her words carefully, for this year, for the first time, her once all-white school was going to be 50% Negro. "This," said she, "isn't a school until you make it one. What kind of a school it will be depends upon you . . . You can make it happy by being fine and friendly and kind to each other...
...overaggressive sex comedy, it has been broadened by foreign travel but scarcely brightened, and Tallulah should have thought twice about appearing in it. No doubt she did, and chose it not as challenge but as a field day. Playing a Parisian writer who has had three children by as many lovers, she decides-now that her children wish to marry respectably-that she had better get married herself. The three fathers, after 20 years, are hence bidden to a house party...