Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a busy holiday eve lunching with Irish Premier Eamon de Valera, holding a full Cabinet meeting and clearing his desk, Sir Winston Churchill slipped away for a two-week vacation at the Riviera villa owned by Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Puckishly traveling incognito as "Mr. Hyde," although 300 well-wishers gathered at London Airport to see him off and several hundred more met him at Cap d'Ail, Sir Winston was accompanied by his daughter Mary and her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, two secretaries and three Scotland Yard inspectors. "Cap d'Ail has received its mayor...
There were other scattered signs of easing up in business. Steel production dropped below 90% for the first time in more than a year, due largely to the Labor Day holiday and a strike in a Bethlehem Steel plant. Business inventories, which usually go down in July, were almost unchanged at $77.3 billion...
...Roman Holiday. Newcomer Audrey Hepburn goes on a hilarious tour of Rome with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert, as Director William Wyler adds some new twists to a popular old comedy-romance plot (TIME, Sept...
...TIME reporter who has been covering one of the most famous vacations of 1953 is Ed Darby, our White House correspondent, assigned to report on President Eisenhower's vacation in Colorado. I asked Darby to tell us about his working holiday, and he sent me the following reply...
This week more than 26 million West Germans-of 33 million eligible to
vote-streamed out into the warm sunshine to make their choice. Some,
with rucksacks on their backs, queued up before polling booths as early
as 4 a.m., voted, trudged off for holiday hikes. In Munich, a team of
boxers went to their polls in boxing trunks on the