Word: confab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than three weeks ago (exception: the Emir of oil-drenched Qatar and his white-draped retinue), and a flood of nontourists saturated the town. The Second United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (full title) which started last week, is probably the biggest scientific confab ever. Besides the 5,000 scientists from 67 countries, and 900 accredited correspondents, came uncounted thousands of atomic businessmen, many with wives or camp followers. Geneva has 6,500 hotel beds, but it was so jammed that some of the delegates were forced to bunk in Evian, France, 60 miles...
...with an escort of four Soviet-built Egyptian MIGs, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spent five hours chatting with Egypt's fire-eating President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Presumed topic A: resumption of relations between Egypt and Great Britain. Middleman Nehru's neutralist comment after the confab: Anglo-Egyptian relations are "progressively returning to normal...
...status of space flight, formerly made suspect by visionaries and fiction writers, was not defined in public until the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. held its Astronautics Symposium at San Diego (TIME, March 4). Planned as a small confab of space-minded missile men, the conference ballooned into a crammed mass meeting of engineers and scientists representing airplane, electronic and instrument companies as well as universities and all three armed services. A few years ago most of these hardheaded characters would not have attended a space-flight meeting except incognito. Now they are eager...
...handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told her. "If you let us have some potatoes, we'll come over to you." Soon afterward, when she saw one of the would-be defectors in deep confab with Gigi himself, Nannarella knew she had been tricked...
...London confab with newshawks, Actress Vivien (Gone With the Wind) Leigh, 42, mother of a 22-year-old daughter and wife (for 16 years) of Sir Laurence Olivier, put down gossip that she will again be a mamma by labeling it the truth. Said she: "The baby is due on Dec. 22. If a girl, she'll be called Katherine. We haven't bothered thinking of a boy's name...