Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walled compound in the foot- hills of Formosa last September, Photographer Robert Crandall embarked on one of his most exacting assignments: photographing some of the great store of Chinese art masterpieces that have been hidden from the world for more than two decades. He had flown to Formosa after TIME Correspondents John Osborne and Curtis Prendergast arranged with Nationalist Chinese authorities to unpack their choicest works, as selected by art experts Dr. Wang Shih-chieh...
...Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been living in the U.S. Legation in Budapest. Mindszenty, forced by Russian intervention to seek refuge, lives in a two-room apartment, gets his meals from the legation kitchen, works on his memoirs and takes infrequent strolls in a gloomy little patio in the legation compound. Though the legation keeps him supplied with newspapers (including the Paris Herald Tribune), the protocol of diplomatic refuge forbids him to receive or send letters or to use the telephone...
...occasion, Beck will take a visitor out back to point out the apartment above his four-car garage. (Actually, his two Lincolns are kept in another garage.) There stay the Compound's rotating bodyguards, constantly on hand because Beck is obsessed with the notion that an unknown "they" are trying to kidnap Dave Beck Jr., a walloping 35-year-old 210-pounder. "If you were out here alone," Beck tells his guest, "you'd be pinned back up against the wall...
Back at the Compound. Beck often spends a quiet evening with Dorothy, a gentle, grey-haired woman who suffers from high blood pressure. Beck likes to read ("I've read nearly everything ever written about Napoleon"; "I just got through Citadel by William White of the N.Y. Times, and incidentally, it's a hell of a condemnation of the excesses in congressional investigations"), and he also enjoys television. He dotes on big-money quiz shows. "I do fairly good on some of those questions," says Beck, in a rueful comparison with his answers on John McClellan...
Some nights Beck dresses in slacks and pocket-monogrammed smoking jacket to play host in the underground layout that is the real showplace of his home. Some of the Compound's boys are always on hand to run the 35-mm. CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters...