Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yacht, the Princess in her family villa-for a summer of waterskiing, swimming, partying and spooning along Istanbul's fashionable Bosporus shore. Soon Feisal completely forgot the requirements of royal protocol, and popped the question without a by-your-leave from his government ministers or the girl's own family. "The two of them got engaged first and then asked if we approved," said Prince Mohammed Ali. "We said...
Judo, Anyone? Racial tension began to build up in Toledo (pop. 330,000) after the teen-age daughter of a Lutheran minister told police that she had been raped by three Negroes. While the Blade story said merely that the girl had been attacked by "three boys," newscasts on all of Toledo's TV and radio stations except WTOL repeatedly identified the rapists as Negroes. After its home edition was delivered, the Blade was besieged with telephone calls accusing it of coddling Negroes...
...Walter M. Mason hope that the Golden Rule Series will help curb juvenile delinquency by exposing pupils to their eleven themes. So far, at least, the children are meeting them halfway. In Cincinnati public schools, which bought sets of books for their fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, boys and girls are even reading the Modern McGuffey on their own time. The favorable reaction of one fifth-grade girl: "Things that are funny really are funny, and things that are serious really are serious...
...short stroll from the gutted hulk of Berlin's old Reichstag one blustery day last week, a young German girl stepped resolutely forward, smashed a bottle of German wine against a brand-new building set on the banks of the River Spree, proclaimed in a clear voice. "I christen you the Congress Hall in memory of Benjamin Franklin." Thus was opened Berlin's newest and most venturesome building, a joint project of the U.S., the West German government and the city of Berlin. Designed as a cultural center where plays, music, debates and symposiums will be held...
...conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves. In Taboo, a story about a shop clerk who steals his friend's girl with fancy talk of his own mysterious powers. Author Moravia suggests his moral: the poor must resign themselves to being cheated. The best of the 27 stories is The Girl from Ciociaria, about a simple peasant wench who works as a maid for a professor and steals books from...