Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swank & Slot Machines. The 20-story, 400-room Havana Riviera (up to $40 a day for a double room) is a modern-style palace with egg-crate fagades, wall-to-wall marble, a 78-cabaña pool and ornate saloons. One of its prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest...
Egocentric. In the South Pole region, U.S. Navy scientists and personnel dubiously eyed the one cracked egg included in the crated supplies dropped by Air Force parachute, then discovered a penciled message: "This egg cracked before we dropped it. Air Force...
Died. Sir Alfred Zimmern, 78, egg-bald British political scientist, historian, longtime (1930-44) Oxford professor of international relations, who helped draft the League of Nations Covenant and shape the framework of UNESCO; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Avon, Conn...
...white craft with forward and aft searchlights, a pair of propellers and a cigar-shaped body with giant wings." ¶ In Atlanta, a man and his wife saw a "high object with about eight lights on it"; a hunter reported a great horizontal beam; a woman saw a red, egg-shaped thing; a housewife thought it was a cigar; three truck drivers said it was a red, egg-shaped ball...
...Mexico James Stokes told of an egg-shaped U.F.O. that sped overhead leaving "a kind of heat wave like radiation from a giant sun lamp." ¶ In Chicago, two cops and a fireman chased a ball of light in a squad...