Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text confirms the general outline leaked at the time, describing how-passionately and sometimes weeping-Khrushchev tore aside the curtain of Communist propaganda that has veiled the late Joseph Stalin's long reign of terror (TIME, March 26 et seq.). It also adds many fascinating details...
Although all this sounded unhappily like the beginning of 1949's "Revolt of the Admirals" (TIME, Oct. 17, 1949 et seq.), no revolt of the generals seemed brewing. One reason: at the top of any U.S. military argument stands a man with a considerable reputation on the subject, Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower. Another reason: blunt old Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, who greeted the battle of the press leaks with the promise of a personal investigation, and rasped: "They don't have to practice psychological warfare on each other...
...roomful of reporters and photographers burst into applause at a Manhattan hospital last week as syndicated Labor Columnist Victor Riesel entered. It was 41-year-old Riesel's first press conference since he was blinded six weeks earlier by an unknown acid thrower (TIME, April 16 et seq.). The little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Daily Mirror columnist had lost 30 Ibs. Two neat white surgical pads shielded his eyes. But Riesel was cheerfully game and bristling with determination to renew his long fight against labor racketeers, whom he charges with the acid attack...
...Finnish-born Eero Saarinen, 45, the Grand Architectural Award, at the Boston Arts Festival, for his design of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapel (TIME, June 29, 1953, et seq.), as "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose . . . sensitivity to the use of materials and detail follow-through...
Final Yard concert by Glee Club this evening. Et tenet nostras numerosus Apollo aures...