Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figures involved-one in topcoat and scarf, leaning heavily on a stick, and the other still erect but no longer trim. As some 60 top-ranking British and French officers and officials crowded around, De Gaulle pinned to Churchill's overcoat the two-barred Cross of Lorraine, symbol of the Order of Liberation, the highest decoration of the Free French forces...
...mock Churchill's famed crack that the Cross of Lorraine was the heaviest he had to bear, he was presented with a cross carved out of pure crystal and weighing three pounds. No sly repayment of old wounds was intended (A great leader, De Gaulle once wrote, "only slightly tastes the savor of his revenge, because action absorbs him entirely"). Instead, removing his two-starred kepi, De Gaulle gave Churchill the standard French embrace of a peck on both cheeks...
There were lots of jerseys down at Dillon--red Kirkland jerseys, green Leverett jerseys, and lots of sweatpants and sneakers, too. The occasion was the House cross-country race and House managers had scraped up enough soccer players, off-season track men, and J.V. runners to form the requisite five-man squads. In all, perhaps 70 people clustered about the starting line...
...rebels said all 31 persons were turned over to Red Cross representatives in eastern Cuba and that they arrived safely in Santiago. The rebel announcement said the release was carried out despite a government breach of good faith during a cease-fire arranged for the safe return of the captives...
...Tate Gallery, all nude statues were carefully screened so as not to offend Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount chief-His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha-fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial territories would get its independence (TIME. Nov. 3). But behind the scenes the conference had revealed ominous signs of trouble to come...