Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house lights dimmed on La Scala's gilt and maroon, and the packed audience sat back to size up an unprecedented debutante: Coloratura Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs, 27, of Atlanta, Ga., the first Negro ever to win a principal role at La Scala...
...more than two weeks Dwight Eisenhower kept a watchful eye on his appointment schedule, hoping for a chance to slip away to the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club for a long weekend of golf and semi-privacy. Last fortnight a balky schedule kept him at home. But on Thursday afternoon last week, leaving a clean desk behind, the President climbed aboard his plane, the Columbine, Georgia bound...
...citizens. He called at the U.S. embassy with a petition to the State Department, demanding that the U.S. citizenship of Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, papal nuncio to Ireland, be revoked. His reason: Archbishop O'Hara, a native-born American whose diocese is Savannah-Atlanta, Ga., is violating the McCarran Act by serving as an agent of a foreign power. Said Blanshard, in a press conference over his action: "Americans believe that no American can be a good citizen whose loyalties are divided between his own state and a foreign state...
Creative Abdication. The "we" are 4,500,000 tribesmen who speak such languages as Dagomba, Akan, Ewe and Ga and are scattered across a rectangular patch of jungle, swamp and bushland that juts into the westward bulge of Africa, north of the coast that was once called the "White Man's Grave." Seven out of ten are illiterate, more than half believe in witchcraft, yet the happy-go-lucky Gold Coasters have been chosen by Imperial Britain to pioneer its boldest experiment in African home rule. In 1951 the British gave the Gold Coast its first democratic constitution; last...
Eisenhower used Jones' cottage beside the Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Ga., for a brief vacation...