Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Numbered Days. The big question in the minds of Kenya's white settlers is: In multiracial government, when do you stop? Certainly not at a mere six African members in the legislature, say many white men, who feel that they have perhaps five years' grace in which to guide Kenya's future along peaceful channels. Moderate blacks, peacefully agitating, may be a stickier problem than the Mau Mau. No longer able to jail Africans for "seditious" talk about political rights, the white settler gulps hard and smiles wanly. He knows his days are numbered...
...Cannes Film Festival last May, an executive of Paris Match, France's top picture magazine, dreamed up a new angle for photographing Prince Rainier Ill's palace at Monaco: he asked visiting Grace Kelly to provide the foreground. She agreed, if he could arrange an audience with the Prince. Out of that unwitting stroke of Matchmaking grew a huge cornycopia, and the U.S. and European press filled it to overflowing last week with gags, gush and gabble...
...keep him company, Rainier had his friend, Chaplain Tucker, who was visibly delighted with the match. Rainier, said the priest, was smitten the first time he saw Grace on the screen. She seemed to fit exacting specifications for a bride (TIME, Dec. 26). So, "shortly after she arrived on the Riviera, we arranged a date. I told the prince," said Delaware-born Father Tucker, "that he could marry a commoner, but not a common girl." Grace met Father Tucker's specifications, too. In Chicago Grace paused briefly to give her own estimate of the situation. "Nationality," she said...
...great harbor, junks with patched sails pick their way among British and U.S. warships, freighters and tankers of a score or more of flags. From the Peak, the British name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps the world's most crowded slums, where as many as 40 may live...
...famed 18th-century French Painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Filling the rest of the gallery will be a loan exhibition of some 50 paintings and drawings by such other 18th-century French painters as Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, testimony to the fact that the tone of elegance and grace set by Watteau in his dreamlike scenes of pastoral dalliance and fétes galantes continued straight through his century until the French Revolution...