Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk with President Eisenhower, Rockefeller was warmly greeted, talked more about civil defense, but neither expected nor got any presidential endorsement. Later in the week, he flew off to his son's wedding in Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS), where there are no New Hampshire primary votes, but where the citizens responded enthusiastically to the personal appeal that makes Nelson Rockefeller such a formidable presidential hopeful...
BOAC's crews in Asia, carrying only overnight cases, enjoying the semiofficial aura of their familiar dark blue uniforms, making frequent comings and goings, usually got casual treatment from customs officials. But last May Indian customs at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport found a 7-oz. gold bar in Chinese Stewardess Jenny Wang's handbag. (Her explanation: Hong Kong residents "customarily" carry gold as "mad money" in case the Chinese Communists should suddenly overrun the city.) A fellow steward, David Furlonger, seeing her being searched, was overheard by an Indian customs official as he remarked...
...last week Chaloupe had Brazilians convinced that giving up Birrell was equivalent to giving up the Southern Cross. New York District Attorney Frank Hogan exploded, blaming the U.S. embassy in Rio for dragging its feet. "All we got from the embassy was a run-around and daily lectures on Latin American relations. We were told that our policy was not to rush the Brazilians, not to raise any anti-American feelings." In a, word, Chaloupe's whitewash had made even the U.S. embassy wonder whether urging Brazil to send Birrell home was diplomatically advisable...
...readers, Sherlock Holmes is a great fictional hero, and in the past 40-odd years the U.S.S.R.'s Ministry of Culture has grossed at least $3,000,000 in sales of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Holmes. But neither Doyle nor his heirs ever got so much as a ruble out of the Soviet sales. A Moscow city court last year tossed out a $180,000 suit brought by Adrian Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur's only surviving son, as a claim for the pirating of his father's writing. Three judges...
...years after he was booted off his throne, Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk is still his country's most popular whipping boy. Accused of all sorts of high and low crimes, Farouk got word from Cairo last week that he is now up for a new title: "Most dangerous thief of Egyptian antiquities." His accuser: the emergency curator of the Egyptian Museum, carrying out the museum's first inventory in some 30 years, a belated measure instituted after the recent discovery that some 25,000 national treasures, worth a king's ransom, have disappeared...