Word: hail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first murderous hail of bullets, Ovnand and Major Buis fell and died within minutes. Captain Howard Boston of Blairsburg, Iowa was seriously wounded, and two Vietnamese guards were killed. Trapped in a crossfire, all six might have died had not Major Jack Hellet of Baton Rouge leaped across the room to turn out the lights-and had not one of the terrorists who tried to throw a homemade bomb into the room miscalculated and blown himself up instead. Within minutes Vietnamese troops arrived, but the rest of the assassins had already fled...
...massive non sequitur, "they would prefer to see men weathercasters on television." So Atlantic proposes to plug a new style: accurate, unadorned reporting. From now on, the company's meteorological M.C.s will show fog on their charts as = , drizzle will be , rain ∙, snow ∙, showers ∇, hail ∆, lightning ∠, thunderstorms β, hurricanes ∮. Using such symbols, weather prophets may or may not convince the public that they really know the difference between a snowstorm, say, and a Scotch mist. But it is doubtful that they will ever adequately replace NBC-TV's Tedi Thurman, who once...
...crowd swelled. By the time of the official opening at 9 p.m., traffic was at a standstill, and police reinforcements had been called into action. By such signs, Parisians knew they were witnessing France's newest art-world success, Nuts-and-Bolts Sculptor Césarsar Baldaccini. "Hail, César!" roared Combat. "The Benvenuto Cellini of scrap metal." trumpeted France-Observateur. Wiping his brow, Gallery Owner Bernard beamed: "Even Picasso doesn't pull them in any better...
...close look at the man whom Berliners hail as a worthy successor to the late, great Mayor Ernst Reuter (whose bust appears behind Brandt in this week's cover picture), TIME called on John Mecklin, chief of the Bonn bureau, and Correspondent
...huge green-and-white-striped umbrella tent and a blue-draped speakers' platform. Beneath the great tent: the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Bernstein rapped his baton and signaled the spirit of the day with Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. A rousing Hail to the Chief brought on the President himself, and then the full-throated Star-Spangled Banner. After a few other musical offerings (Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, Baritone Leonard Warren), the President got up to speak. The music, he quipped, raised one question: "If they can do this under a tent...