Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fragile (135 Ibs.) philanthropist holds court in the coffee shop of the Baker Hotel, where he has lived since his wife died in 1939. Fellow townsmen are allowed to stop and chat if a hovering nurse nods to them, are offered Robert Burns Panatelas at audience's end. The cigars must be smoked immediately; E. J. Baker likes his gifts to be used...
...cops had no evidence that the accused were noisemakers, produced neighbors who said that the party had been orderly. But his defense character witnesses were no help: they were fellow ESPPs, who bristled the court by admitting under cross-examination that they hated the Army. At trial's end the three-man court deliberated six hours, found the ten defendants guilty, fined them $25 each, restricted them to post for 25 days, demoted each one grade in rank. The Chemical Center's 400 ESPPs were incensed but silent; Old Armymen were openly delighted. Said one: "Maybe now these...
...spat in its face." The satellites fell tamely into line as the literary hacks of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania echoed the denunciations by Soviet hacks. Only Antoni Slonimski, head of the cantankerous Polish Writers' Association, sent Pasternak a congratulatory telegram and, at week's end, was still unrepentant...
...stationing of intermediate range U.S. missiles in Europe, but not a single missile base has been established anywhere on the Continent. NATO's minimum military ambition-a 30-division shield force in Western Europe-remains unachieved. West Germany, which promised to contribute twelve combat-ready divisions by the end of 1959, has only seven in being, will probably take four years to assemble the rest...
...nude statues were carefully screened so as not to offend Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount chief-His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha-fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial territories would get its independence (TIME. Nov. 3). But behind the scenes the conference had revealed ominous signs of trouble to come...