Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abdul Karim Kassem, the armed camp that is Baghdad's Defense Ministry was a faithful reflection of Iraq's mood and condition. Nine months after Kassem and a handful of co-conspirators toppled the government of hated Strongman Nuri asSaid, the land that some say was the Garden of Eden is a place of terror, plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent citizens disappear without a trace, a land where...
...sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint Catherine's monastery. The expedition packed in their own food supplies, since the 13 monks that keep the monastery cannot spare any food from the sparse yield of their parched garden patch...
...Harvard graduate students, both 1956 Olympic skating champions, will perform in "Ice Chips of 1959" at Boston Garden this weekend. The stars are Hayes A. Jenkins and Miss Tenley E. Albright...
Once you get the hang of interpreting these things, it is like having a new world laid out before you. You know, for example, that 13 lines against a background of mud, colored not too dark, nor yet too light, would depict a carelessly raked garden, planted heavily to leeks, in a Tibetan lamasery...
...wisp of a woman (5 ft., 76 Ibs.) who likes to wear originals by Dior and Givenchy, still has a high interest in high fashion. Last week Sam came home with just the right present: Conde Nast Publications Inc., publishers of the haute couture Vogue (circ. 415,258), House & Garden (circ. 576,196), and their svelte siblings Glamour (circ. 668,062) and Bride's Magazine (circ. 169,902). Grins Newhouse: "I thought Mitzie would get a thrill...