Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pipes & Pathans. Six hours out of Turkey, he landed in the brassy, brilliant sun at Karachi's airport to be greeted by Pakistan's President, blunt, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night...
...photographers-and Ike, for that matter-had not seen anything yet. In a day and a half of Pakistani hospitality, he attended a society matron's dream of a dinner party (held under two huge, orange-and-black-striped tents that were floored with rich Oriental rugs), heard the eerie caterwauling of pipes played by a countermarching military regiment, watched Pathan tribesmen from the northwest frontier as they danced in wild, hair-tossing abandon, observed part of an Australian-Pakistani cricket match, marveled at an exhibition of tent-pegging (in which shrieking horsemen galloped full speed at tent pegs...
...Bonn, key Cabinet members heard Dillon out sympathetically, but the new 1960 budget introduced in the Bundestag last week earmarked less than $25 million for direct governmental technical assistance to other countries. (NATO partner Germany also spends only one-fourth of its budget on defense, while the U.S. spends half...
...prelude to the most important development in international economics since General Marshall launched his plan of 1947 on that flood tide in Atlantic affairs that has so spectacularly led on to fortune . . . Now everything suggests that a new tide is racing which could determine whether the decade and a half from 1960 to 1975 will repeat the last 15 years of success, but this time with Europe allied to America as intelligent benefactors...
Perhaps no playwright today is more gifted than Anouilh at creating little dialectical monologues or variety turns, at giving a mockingbird's-eye view of a given subject. Dotted with bright remarks, The Fighting Cock half a dozen times foams up into pointed or picturesque little scenes. But instead of a sense of fermentation beneath the foam, there is a good deal of dramatic flatness. It is not so much that the play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face...