Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enterprising King Mahendra and Prime Minister Koirala are agreed on the need to put their chaotic country to rights. Tawny-skinned and brown-eyed, with a thin face and frame like that of Frank Sinatra, Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was born at Banaras, India in 1914, where his articulate professional father had fled the wrath of the Ranas. Graduating from the University of Calcutta with a law degree, Koirala joined Nehru and Gandhi in the fight for Indian independence, was jailed for 2^ years by the British. With the downfall of the Ranas, he returned to Nepal with...
...Wimbledon's sweltering center court, Maria kept her nerves under control. Not a flicker of emotion crossed her face as she slammed home crushing serves and front-court volleys to win 6-4, 6-3. Then Brazil's pretty brunette tennis queen sank her head into her hands and had a good...
...south face of Mount McKinley...
...Cornell library's two surviving copies, he had not laid eyes on the book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face of my professor, his short hair . . . combed down over his forehead, his eyes blinking incessantly behind steel-rimmed spectacles as though he had just emerged into strong light, his lips nibbling each other like nervous horses...
...Letter. Nixon may well face another conflict when Nelson Rockefeller tries to take the 1960 Republican nomination, and no reporter-not even one as able as Earl Mazo-can say how Nixon really feels about that. The Vice President is saying all the right things ("The times may require and demand a man with different qualifications"). More to the point may be another remark: "I never in my life wanted to be left behind...