Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characteristic British fashion. Fleet Street editors prepared their readers for next Sunday when pretty Princess Margaret will turn five-and-twenty. The old-line newspapers acted as if this were just another milestone for the Court Circular. The lurid tabloids headlined it as the day when, in the words of the Daily Sketch, "she can marry whom she pleases," and went on to relate with simulated disapproval the latest American reports on Group Captain Peter Townsend, 40, the R.A.F. fighter-pilot hero and British air attaché in Brussels whom all Fleet Street expects Margaret to marry...
...Named Joseph. But as the Greek army, with the help of U.S. General James Van Fleet, smashed at the hard-pressed Communist guerrillas in the mountains, Niko and his Roula returned to the safety and comfort of Communist Bucharest, where they set themselves up in an apartment next to Stalin Park in the fashionable diplomatic district. From the safety of Rumania Niko kept control of the Greek Communist Party, while Roula, as head of the women's department, beamed radio appeals to the Red underground. It was a fine life. They toured satellite Europe in a limousine driven...
...Five-Year Plan in less than three years. Bulganin's reward was an assignment to succeed Kaganovich as chairman of the Moscow Soviet-in effect, Mayor of Moscow. Bulganin built boulevards and six bridges across the Moskva River. From Britain and France he imported such "improvements" as a fleet of trolley buses and a set of spanking white gloves for the capital's traffic cops. Bulganin worked with Kaganovich and Khrushchev, then a district party boss, on the building of the Moscow subway. With Georgy Malenkov, then the chief of Moscow party cadres, he purged the party apparatus...
...Apple Valley, Calif., Long Beach Oilmen Newton Bass and Bernard Westlund developed 26,000 acres of desert land they bought in 1946 for an average of $50 an acre into a plush resort, now use 90 salesmen and a fleet of radio-controlled cars to sell half-acre lots for as much...
Telltale Ripples. In all the fleet that edged past Execution Rocks Light and set out for Block Island, no skipper had lavished more care on his predicted log than two-time Race Winner Dr. Allen B. Du Mont, 54, in his 54-ft. Trumpy-built cruiser Hurricane III. An engineer by profession (and president of the $63 million Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., which manufactures television sets and a variety of other electronic instruments), he had figured his time with professional precision. A seasoned sailor, he had laid out his course with professional skill...