Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bermuda last week in a happy haze of fatigue and felicitations, more than ready to soak up a few days of sunlight before tackling his country's lowering problems of recession and unemployment. Behind him was the most dramatic election landslide in Canada's history, a coast-to-coast sweep that carried Tory M.P.s into 208 of the House of Commons' 265 seats, and cut the combined opposition down to a hapless...
...slickly, quickly produced Insides as superficial glimpses through hotel windows. He has been dubbed "the Book-of-the-Month Club's Marco Polo," a "Jonah among journalists," "master of the once-over-lightly." Gunther brushed off Venezuela in 24 hours while researching Inside Latin America, skipped the Ivory Coast entirely on his Inside Africa trip. At the start of his 17 months on the road for Inside U.S.A., Gunther himself recalls, he sped out of Rhode Island in horror after realizing suddenly that he had spent "eight whole days" on his first and smallest state...
...ashore and afloat and 6,000 flying hours as a naval aviator. Rear Admiral John Smith Thach, 52, last week drew a unique assignment: goblin hunting. In Navy parlance, goblins are unidentified submarines. By Navy observation, goblins currently spotted on an average of once a week off the Atlantic coast are nosy members of a Russian submarine fleet that numbers almost 500 boats, and is already ten times the size of Germany's wolf pack at the outbreak of World War II. Very soon, new Soviet boats will have missile capacity; Central Intelligence Agency Chief Allen Dulles estimates that...
...radio show, The Case for the College. The most ambitious attempt at alumni pocket-lightening made so far, it was part of "A Program for Harvard College" (TIME. Nov. 26, 1956), Harvard's plan for raising $82,500,000 (already in the kitty: $35 million). The broadcast was coast to coast in the U.S. on CBS, and-on the theory that the sun never sets on Harvard alumni-abroad on the armed forces radio network. Radio Luxembourg, the Voice of America, and various outlets in the Orient. But the nation's wealthiest educational institution was addressing an audience...
Married. Frances Farmer, 43, onetime topnotch Hollywood leading lady (Come and Get It] who was committed to a mental hospital in 1943, is now making a comeback on TV; and Leland C. Mikesell, 53, West Coast radio-TV consultant; she for the third time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...