Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bound for Washington and "a long overdue date with a tennis court and a swimming pool" in Connecticut. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce left Rome last week increasingly hopeful about Italy's future. "If Trieste can be settled, as I hope it will be," she told reporters before she left, "and if EDC can be ratified by Italy, then this country within the next two years will begin to play a much more active and dynamic role in foreign affairs than at any time since 1948." Premier Mario Scelba's government seems more and more to promise...
...amiable little extraversions (she once gratified an impulse "to feel a lion," reported that "he was very handsome"). In the end the audience sees her in the yellow leaf of her eighth decade, as she lives and works now with her second companion, Polly Thompson, in their Connecticut home-drying dishes, following her guide rail for a walk in the fields, choring through the morning mail, touching music in a radio, caught reading a volume in Braille beneath the bedclothes late at night...
...remarkable is not its length but its good-sense planning. Following the historic route from New York up the Hudson to Albany, then west through the Mohawk Valley to Buffalo, it passes within 20 miles of 85% of the state's 15 million residents. Spurs to the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey turnpikes, Garden State Parkway, the Pennsylvania state line and Niagara Falls will add 137 miles and make it the best integrated of all toll roads. The spurs and a smoothly planned system of interchanges will also help overcome the vexing problems of entry and exit that have plagued...
...Senate oldtimers recalled only one previous suicide by an incumbent Senator. On Oct. 14, 1924 Frank B. Brandegee, Connecticut Republican, killed himself by inhaling gas in the bathroom of his Washington apartment...
...Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries. A punny farce about sin and redemption in suburban Connecticut (TIME...