Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...block wedge of Moscow real estate where Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev held their spectacular verbal fencing matches last week is a wonder of U.S. planning, talent and do-it-yourself ingenuity. Conceived four years ago, the American exhibition in Moscow was not finally approved by the Kremlin until last December, and the fact that it was ready to open on schedule marked some sort of speed record for major international expositions...
...stories detailing the President's thinking on the day's top issues-but attributing the news only to a "high authority." Word soon spread that the President had given a small stag dinner for regular White House correspondents-the first for the press that he had ever held at his house. Present were Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Press Secretary James Hagerty, and 13 newsmen-those, as Ike told the news conference, "who have covered me wherever I've gone, day in, day out ... on good trips, bad trips or anything else ... I wanted to show them...
Cold, Cold House. The victory was important because it ranged the traditionally pro-labor House committee against Big Labor, and held the line against a worthless substitute bill. But the committee bill itself was now out in the cold, cold House where most Republicans and conservative Democrats intend to try to toughen it in three principal areas...
Shrieking the Japanese equivalent of "Oh, my gosh!" Tokyo Fashion Model Akiko Kojima. 22, exuded sheer joy at the happy news. She was the new Miss Universe, the first Asian ever to take the crown in the international beauty contest, held last week for the eighth year in Long Beach, Calif. Burbled Akiko over her fast-breaking curves (37-23-38): "I am floating on a cloud and living a dream!" Overwhelmed by new-found fondness for the U.S., she also announced that she wants to live in the U.S. eventually, raise a family, be "a lovely wife...
...conference in Kiev, Russia. Physicist Luis Alvarez of the University of California last week held up a strange photograph that looked a little like a nonobjective drawing. It was in fact a picture of one of nature's innermost secrets. Made possible by use of California's new 6-ft. liquid hydrogen bubble chamber (TIME, July 13), it showed for the first time the birth, death and after effects of an anti-lambda particle...