Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captured a majority of the Senate but fell short in the House, and may not be able to put together a majority, though King Baudouin asked Social Christian August De Schryver, 60, to make a sounding. Probable result: Belgium will struggle along until everybody goes home from the Brussels Fair and then vote again. EURJ In Portugal the election was certain by its nature to be a landslide without any annoying democratic uncertainties. The winning presidential candidate was Dictator Antóonio de Oliveira Salazar's nominee, Admiral Ameérico Tomaés. But never before in Salazar...
Registering a variety of unregal emotions, members of Britain's royal family-the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal-lined the rails at Epsom Downs like the noble nag lovers in My Fair Lady's Act I Ascot Gavotte, watched...
Evan Edward Worthing told the Negroes who rented his property in Houston: "You let me have what belongs to me. and I'll give you what belongs to you." A fair man who sometimes seemed hard, he had captained the first Texas A. & M. football team to beat the University of Texas (12-0. in 1902), and he sternly threw out tenants who had no good reason for defaulting on their rent. But he lent money freely when times were hard, would let a family fall behind on the rent if there were good reasons for it. Quietly...
...thousands who eddy each day through the 470-acre exhibit-packed Brussels World's Fair, the U.S. Pavilion, with its open plaza, reflecting pool and splashing fountains, has become a star attraction. But what is inside the lofty, translucent drum designed by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, Cover, March 31) has become the subject of a running controversy, at home and abroad. Main reason is that the U.S., setting out to give its interpretation of a new humanism tailored to fit the Atomic Age, decided it could win more friends by using the soft sell. The result...
...give a cross section of this beneficent presence, from, the most naive form to the most sophisticated, the U.S. fair staff appointed experts to pick 181 paintings, sculptures and craft objects, and divided them into four different exhibits. Contemporary sculpture was placed in the pavilion's interior pool; displays featuring 41 examples of native Indian art, a wide selection of American folk art, and, most controversial of all, 44 paintings by 17 artists under 45 now working from Manhattan to San Francisco, were spread out elsewhere in the building...