Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...session of Parliament began in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, last week, the pattern of noble withdrawal was broken by Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of the nearly extinct Central African Federation. Required by tradition to read the speech drafted by the local white government, Lord Dalhousie, resplendent in a plumed cocked hat and silver epaulets, delivered a sharp rebuke to Britain because it "has betrayed the people of the federation and has done them irreparable harm...
Then the horde struck--30 egg-hunters armed with wastebaskets, straw boxes, pocketbooks, hat boxes and paper bags, all intent on winning the first annual North House Easter egg hunt...
Guatemala City's workers and shopkeepers applauded politely, and the hundreds of straw-hat peasants trucked into the capital stood passively. The country's new military strongman was addressing them. On a balcony of the avocado green national palace, Army Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, explained what was in store for the country following his overthrow of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. He began by proclaiming Decree Law No. 1: subject-labor reform. Peralta promised equal pay for both Indians and whites, an eight-hour day and a 48-hour week, paid vacations, maternity leave, the right of farm...
...even $42 million is not available. Last week UNESCO Secretary-General René Maheu added up what had been gathered by passing the international hat. Egypt pledged $11.5 million. West Germany gave $1,845,000, Italy $1,800,000. India $714,000, Cuba $160.000. In all. 37 countries contributed, including Bolivia and Nepal, each of which gave $1,000, but the total is more than $22 million short...
...Hundred Roles a Day. Joan Hackett is typical of a relatively new and relatively unnoticed phenomenon: the television-trained pro. Before television, actresses whose ambitions ran to serious acting-Margaret Sullavan, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis-got their training in road companies, straw-hat theaters, or in Hollywood's now-all-but-vanished B pictures. Disdained by highbrows as inferior, ignored by serious critics in search of "specials," television nonetheless offers young actors a wonderfully flexible working stage and an audience millions of times greater than anything Ogunquit or Provincetown ever knew. There are a hun dred available roles...