Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apply the treaty's principles elsewhere. Said the Russians in a statement issued by the Soviet embassy in Washington: "The significance of this agreement goes beyond the limits of Antarctica and can be a good example for adopting similar decisions in respect to other regions of the globe." Australia's Ambassador Howard Beale raised the intriguing possibility that the treaty might serve as a model for another uninhabited, potentially disputed region: "the outer reaches of space...
...were to see a performance of Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover. When there was no trace of a royal welcome, the Queen murmured: "Where are our friends and our tickets?" Gustav shrugged. It was then they learned that the play was a quarter mile away at the Globe Theatre, where an audience had begun mumbling and grumbling while the curtain was being held for the Swedes' arrival. Dashing for a cab. the royal couple were quickly embroiled in a horrendous Piccadilly Circus traffic snarl, including fire engines, but they got to the Globe only 15 minutes late...
...gather from daily newspaper reading that de Gaulle wants to weld France and Germany into an economic block around which Italy, the Benelux countries, and perhaps others would revolve. Representing a population equal to that of the United States, this block is intellectually the most fertile region on the globe, and industrially close to the American potential...
...kept a fascinated audience of first-nighters applauding long after the stage hands wanted to call it a night." "New York critics were spellbound by the play," it reported, and they did seem to break into a kind of dithyrambic dance, as if Hamlet had just opened at the Globe...
...started by Pan American with new long-range Boeing 707 Intercontinentals. Jet flying time from New York around the world to Los Angeles will be about 38 hours v. 66 hours on piston-engine planes. Actual elapsed time will be just over two days v. seven days when globe-girdling air service was started...