Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There wasn't any door for the damned to hammer on, and the Second Empire mantlepiece "bronze atrocity" was still in the papier mache stage, and two stark spotlights caught the players in a cross-fire. But these things would be rectified by the final rehearsal. The drama itself is an achievement...
When Britain launched its womb-to-tomb National Health Service in 1948, it was expected to be the death of Harley Street. But many Britons did not like N.H.S., decided to join private health-insurance plans corresponding to Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the U.S. With a major part of their costs covered by insurance, they can afford to run to Harley Street at the first twinge of pain. paying private (and sometimes exorbitant) fees for the privilege...
...Archbishop of Salzburg raised his golden crosier, traced a great cross, murmured a blessing, then turned to the crowd and said: "It is done." As applause spattered across the courtyard in front of the Renaissance-baroque Salzburg Cathedral, one sturdy little man who was watching broke into a smile. For Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 49, the dedication one day last week of the 6,600-Ib. bronze doors for the cathedral ceremoniously closed the book on three years of intense, painstaking work...
Secretary Dulles, who as a chief legal architect of the U.N. Charter has all its provisions neatly cross-indexed in his mind, spotted a way around the yes-no dilemma. Under the charter, Dulles pointed out, Khrushchev could sit in the U.N. Security Council if he wanted to. Around that point, Dulles and the President shaped Eisenhower's reply to Khrushchev...
When Ambrose Usher first bubbled into print, London critics hooted happily that the model for the talkative detective was obviously brilliant, pudgy Sir Isaiah Berlin, Oxford don, author (The Hedgehog and the Fox), cross-country conversationalist and, during World War II, a first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. Jocelyn Davey was a nom de plume, and there seemed good reason to suspect that Sir Isaiah might be Author Davey, as well as Hero Usher. To save a fellow Reform Club member from disrepute, the real author stepped forward: brilliant, pudgy Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who was at Oxford with...