Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall Eden, who wears his hair shoulder-length, practices breath control and eats only fruits, nuts and vegetables, shuffled into Los Angeles' Lincoln Theater. He had a manuscript he wanted Cole to see ("I like the gentleness with which he plays"). Then he took off for the desert to commune with Avak the Healer ("Although we needed an interpreter, we spoke the same language inside...
Since war's end, no one had known what to do with Basic Magnesium, the world's biggest magnesium plant. Built in 1941 in the desert in Nevada between Boulder City and Las Vegas, Basic had cost the Government $140 million, and it had its own town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...
Since Imam Yahya of Yemen's death (TIME, March 1), rival contenders have been fighting a civil war for his desert imamate. An Arab League delegation, out from Cairo to investigate affairs in Yemen, has got no farther than Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. There the delegates have shivered through the desert nights behind mud-brick walls, warmed only by their camel's-hair abayas (cloaks...
Into this setting the Salzburg Seminar rose like an oasis in a desert. That it was more than a mirage is evidenced by its emulators who plans projects this year. Washington University NSA will sponsor one in Copenhagen, while a University of Chicago group plans to do the same in Germany. Other colleges throughout the nation have been stimulated to attempt similar projects, as has the Canadian International Student Service...
...economic security and military bases were the only considerations in the Palestine issue, the United States would have a business-like argument for failing to back an effective partition. Arabia and the desert countries of the Middle East have always been of vital concern to an oil-conscious U. S. Although American oil reserves are immense, comprising thirty percent of the known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States...