Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, somebody forgot to assign a man to raise the U.S. flag at Ebbets Field (an improvement over 1913, when the Dodgers couldn't even find a flag). Then, in a fit of haste, the Brooklyns ran their World Championship emblem up the pole above the Stars & Stripes...
...Deputies discuss their strategy for the Assembly (see "Poujadists Under Fire" in FOREIGN NEWS). Correspondent de Carvalho thought he was passing unnoticed until he spotted a Poujadist staring suspiciously at his lapels: except for Poujade himself, De Carvalho was the only one present not wearing a Poujadist emblem. But he sat tight, and afterwards invited a Poujadist Deputy to dinner. The Deputy showed up with a longtime friend, who listened wide-eyed to De Carvalho's questions and with even greater interest to the Deputy's answers. When the interview ended-at 2 a.m.-the friend remarked...
...name an age of. choice and discontent Whose emblem is "the difficult...
...concert stage Oistrakh appears with the small gold emblem of the Stalin Prize in the lapel of his well-tailored tails, and in 1951 he wrote an anti-American article in the Soviet review New Times about the "climate of bellicose hysteria that the American propaganda seeks to impose." (Today he half apologizes for the article by pointing to all the nasty things the Western press has said about Russia.) Oistrakh seems to enjoy a large degree of independence from the usual restrictions on junketing Russians. Getting interested in a conversation with a Western friend in a cafe...
...Bulldozing. As a military band blared The National Emblem March, the door slammed behind Ike, and the Columbine rolled slowly onto the runway. Then, blinking big red lights, it roared into the murky air. An hour later, at 17,000 ft., the silvery plane droned smoothly through clear blue skies. Ignoring his made-up bed, Ike strolled forward into the cockpit as the Columbine circled over Abilene, Kans., giving him a look at his boyhood home before lunch (steak broiled aboard...