Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the wake of President Eisenhower's trip to Western Europe and on the eve of Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S., historic events were in full flood, political leaders and diplomats rode a crest of world interest and hope. TIME describes those events -and relates them the one to the others and the parts to the whole...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of Old Man, William Faulkner's story of a convict and a pregnant woman tossed together by a Mississippi River flood. One of Director John Frankenheimer's finest All times E.D.T. achievements. With Sterling Hayden and Geraldine Page...
Fumed Minutes. Everybody complained about the flood of campers who this season surged into the Riviera like a horde of Goths. They crowded together in vast enclosures, with their tents squeezed close to each other, and paid from 4? to 30? per night for the privilege of bedding down. As the sleek cars sped by, campers stood at the edge of the road washing themselves-when there was water. For all the tourists this season the Riviera seemed cramped, and the resort towns are blending into each other to form an endless Côte d'Azur city...
Died. Bohuslav Martinu, 68, Czech composer and onetime visiting professor of composition at Princeton, who turned out a flood of operas (The Miracle of Our Lady), symphonies (Fantaisies Symphoniques) and chamber music, saw one of his operas (The Marriage) become a U.S. TV hit; near Basel, Switzerland...
...stunned at the world response to their wedding. At first they were glad to interrupt their jaunts on Steven's motorcycle and chat with the trickle of arriving newsmen. Then their eyes glazed at the continual flaring of flashbulbs, the eager and often idiotic questions of a growing flood of newsmen and newswomen...