Word: fall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adam's Fall. From the Lenin, Kozlov and Nixon went on to play "Can You Top This?" at Peterhof, Peter the Great's lavish palace, with its trick garden gadgets to douse the unwary with fountain sprays. When Nixon tried out his rudimentary Russian on the crowd in the gardens, Kozlov topped him by commenting in rudimentary English: "Very good." Then, recalling that the Peterhofs 560 statues had been buried for safety during the Nazis' World War II siege of the city, Kozlov pointed to figures of Adam and Eve, separated by a wide garden, and cracked...
...private army of his own against the forces of Kamal Jumblatt, chieftain of the Druses, craggy mountaineers who practice the secret rites of an Islamic heresy. When Jumblatt's army overran his village, Moghabghab burned his own home to the ground rather than let it fall to the enemy...
...historic British fortress of Halifax. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and 18 Cabinet members were on hand to see her off in a whirl of meetings, state banquets and one final piece of business: the appointment of a new Governor General to succeed scholarly Vincent Massey, 72, who retires this fall after 7½ years of service...
...Manhattan apartment from lung-cancer surgery, TV-Radio Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, paused in San Francisco on his airborne way to Hawaii. A voluntary exile from show business since his operation, Godfrey will tape some Waikiki Beach sequences in Honolulu for release on CBS-TV this fall...
...most moving and truly poetic Macbeth I have ever known." When the play was finished, apart from critics who claimed to miss polish and high oratorical style, the cheering audience was willing to go Siobhan one better. The response suggested that the production (headed for Broadway in the fall) may be one of the most spectacular Shakespearean shows yet seen...