Word: gather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each day a knot of government men, Red Cross representatives, and journalists gather at the Hong Kong border of Red China to watch for freed prisoners who straggle across from the tiny Chinese border town of Shumchun. By now, the watchers are accustomed to the look left by long imprisonment and hammering interrogation, the attrition of hunger, worry and disease. But they were still shocked by one figure that came from behind the barbed wire. Dressed in a black Chinese gown and tattered brown cap, Roman Catholic Bishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni looked dazedly out at the free world with...
Last week, though parsons still thundered, Britons were betting more than ever. Gambling is more at home in Britain than anywhere else in the world. Every Thursday night, some 7,000,000 families gather around domestic hearths for a quiet evening at home, picking entries for the weekend mutuel football (soccer) pools. Half the adult population in the isles bets, and individuals wager an average of 60? a week. Last year the gambling outlay amounted to 81,540,000,000. The favorites: $980 million on horse racing, $336 million on dog racing, and $207 million on football pools...
French Lick, Ind. (pop. 2,000), a quiet spa, has a special place in the nostalgia of the Democratic Party. There the pre-F.D.R. generation of Democratic leaders were wont to gather before and after election-time, consuming mint juleps, Pluto water ("If nature won't, Pluto will") and the salty wisdom of Indiana's late boss, Tom Taggart. Last week the Democrats, their blood up, went back to French Lick to consider how their party might be reinvigorated for 1956. "There is no question but what we will focus our guns on the President himself...
...Ruby" (Robina MacDonald, her personal maid) would tiptoe upstairs and waken the Princess with a cup of tea and the first Happy Birthday. Then there would be prayers, a breakfast of grilled herrings, the usual reading of the Sunday papers with her mother, after which the whole family would gather in the green drawing room for the opening of birthday presents, which were arriving by the dozens in sealed red mailbags...
Last week the African National Congress and the African Education Movement added a new wrinkle to their bootlegging of knowledge. They started up nine "clubs" where children can gather for lessons. The pupils call themselves "members/' the teachers are "group leaders," the classes are "meetings." By next fall these new clubs hope to have 20,000 children learning their history, geography and languages through quiz games and "talking newspapers," their 3 Rs through songs ("A for Africa, B for Ball. We are happy...