Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That popular Eastern melodrama. Here Come the Generals, which has played so successfully during recent weeks in Pakistan, Burma, Thailand and Iraq, opened to thunderous applause last week in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan...
...Mariameyeh (the Virgin Mary), a short, portly man with rosy cheeks and a long white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...
...other major strikes threatened the U.S. airline industry last week: Eastern Air Lines' flight engineers, who have been working without a contract since April 1957, threatened to walk out this week unless their demands are met for higher pay, better working conditions and assurance that they will not be replaced by pilot-qualified engineers on the new jetliners. Eastern's 600 engineers expect to shut the line down completely. It may be tough to do: much of Eastern's equipment is twin-engined, needs no engineer, and qualified pilots can operate as engineers on long-range...
Since U.S. railroads are in financial trouble as rarely before, more and more railroad men are thinking of mergers. Last week word leaked out of a merger possibility among seven major eastern and Great Lakes lines, discussed recently at a Cleveland meeting of the lines' executives. The lines: Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis), and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western...
...coffee and so on . . ." What is worse, there is "hanky-panky with the bag," i.e., polite smuggling under diplomatic cover and black-market trade in PX items. This is the basis of a complicated but well-drawn plot in which Novelist McMinnies demonstrates that she knows her way around Eastern Europe as well as her first book, The Flying Fox (TIME, March 11, 1957) showed that she could make her way through the simpler jungles of Malaya...