Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia. President Sukarno may be an inept administrator but he has a keen ear and eye for the political currents that sweep Southeast Asia. His comment, "Parliamentary democracy doesn't work in this part of the world," has been justified by the events that have sent generally corrupt Parliaments packing from Pakistan to Thailand. But Sukarno's erratic guidance of his island nation of 85 million people has brought it dangerously near bankruptcy and disaster. A right-wing rebellion, sporadic, unmilitant, but persistent, threatens the nation's resources of oil and rubber. Indonesia is even more dangerously...
...London's Sunday Express, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 84, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had a heartwarming spiritual reflection. "Stalin was a rough and stern man," mused the Dean. "But God's eye is a big eye and sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive...
...Space. One day in 1954, a two-paragraph item in the San Francisco Chronicle caught Alec Cushing's eye. Reno had bid for the Olympic Games. Cushing had only one chair lift at Squaw then, but he decided to apply too. "I had no more interest in getting the games than the man in the moon," he admits. "It was just a way of getting some newspaper space." The space he got in West Coast papers brought a flood of encouraging letters, made up Cushing's mind: "When I got letters from all those people saying what...
...pine-muffled bulk of an island; then it reappears behind another island whose barren rocks are as abrupt as a cymbal crash. The picture opens out, like a swelling andante, into the expanse of the lake, the welcoming bridge. Above, square black flags are a dancing arpeggio. Movement of eye and mind is brought to a massive stop at the looming palace gate...
Gone were the shroudlike lines of the chemise and the rib-pinching high waists of the Empire line. In their place was a natural, gaily colored (mint green, bright red and blue, fuchsia and violet) silhouette with lines round enough to brighten the dullest male eye...