Word: highlighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavy Price." In contrast with the night of cries and hoarse cheers, the formal joint session of India's Parliament next day seemed a world apart. Ike's speech to Parliament had been planned as the highlight of his Asian trip but it got only a lukewarm reception (13 desk-banging applause interruptions), partly because it said some things about force that neutralist Indians did not particularly want to hear, left unsaid some others-such as a massive foreign-aid commitment or a resounding promise to fight beside India in case of Chinese invasion-that they wanted very...
...Highlight of the vacation was Mamie Eisenhower's 63rd birthday, celebrated at week's end at a dinner party in "Mamie's cottage" on the Augusta National's grounds. Dressed in a brown silk print with a fitted bodice, the First Lady happily posed for a birthday picture, recalled the time six years ago at Augusta when Grandson David ("just a little boy then") had "gathered up all the blown flashbulbs" after photographers left. Golfer Ike posed impatiently. "Looks as if it's going to rain," he grumped, turned on his heel and strode away...
...highlight the contributions of Bahia to Brazilian culture, some 1,000 objects, ranging from gaily painted gourds and handsomely decorated clay pots to ritual drums (named rum, rumpi and lé) and the ornate paraphernalia of the colorful candomble religious dances brought over from Africa, have been put on exhibition at São Paulo's Bienal. More than 40,000 visitors throng the exhibition weekly; visiting critics, discovering a new folk art they never knew existed, have told Brazilians: "This is your great...
...Princeton Tigertones and Jack Carleton's Band highlight the Lowell "Orange Ball." Quincy's "Tiger Tail Swing" has the Princeton Tigertones, the Freddy Guerra Orchestra, and folk-singing...
Today at the Stadium the Harvard University Band will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a gigantic musical reunion, a highlight of its happy, humorous, and impressive history. Many of the men who will play in the almost 400-piece reunion band are those who have been responsible for establishing the Band's unique position in the University community and its fame throughout the country. Although beset by war years, financial worries, rival school's cheering sections, and the Dean's Office, the group has always in its 40 years managed to entertain its audiences and have a good time doing...