Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lantflex I-57 (code name for the exercise) with its 19 ships set out to sea, Ike's hosts trotted out a dark-blue Mitscher-type cap and a dark-blue foul-weather jacket with "The President" stenciled in gold on the chest. Ike took up his station for hours at a time on the green-tinted, glass-windowed flag bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles...
Last week the A.M.A. gave its Distinguished Service Award (gold medal plus citation) to Dr. Tom Douglas Spies (rhymes with fees), an eccentric bachelor who, at 55, has no home, but lives out of a suitcase in a hotel wherever he happens to be working. About eight months of the year this is Birmingham; for two months it may be Havana or San Juan; the rest of the time it is Chicago, where Spies heads Northwestern University's department of nutrition and metabolism. Since his school days, pellagra has been almost completely banished from the U.S. And, for this...
Last week, nearly 18 years after the museum's doors had been closed by war, they were at last reopened. In the rebuilt interior, only one item of decor was salvaged from the original structure: the gold-and-white great portal of the main Rubens room (see cut). A stream of proud Münchners flooded every gallery in the building. They noted such improvements as the overhead skylights and lighting, and walls tapestried with ivory silk. Hanging against them with vibrant life were 800 paintings, the world-famous masterpieces back home again: Dürer's Four...
Nick of Time. The 1929 crash left the Behns with a $122 million debt. Like a nine-lived cat, I.T. & T. was saved when the U.S. went off the gold standard, raising the value of foreign money. Sosthenes worked his way out of the hole (minus Hernand who died in 1933) by getting foreign subsidiaries to float local bond issues, boosting the parent company's U.S. credit. But no sooner was he solvent again than European upheavals put him right back in trouble...
John H. Bennett, Engineering and Applied Sciences; David E. Bertelson, History and Literature; Glen W. Bowersock, Classics; Elling O. Eide, Far Eastern Languages; Robert S. Freeman, Music; Ronald Gold, Chemistry; Arnold M. Goldman, English; and Samuel R. Himmelhoch, History and Literature...