Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holiday in Japan (at the New Frontier) is an Oriental variety show imported by Steve Parker, travel-happy husband of Cinemactress Shirley MacLaine (TIME, June 22). Ballad-belting M.C. James Shigeta imitates Elvis Presley with accurate Occidental accent, Belly Dancer Rie Taniuchi (34-21-35) oscillates through a Latin American cha cha cha, and the Nagata Kings pantomime a superb slapstick parody of baseball. What was missing from the start, by Vegas standards, was a satisfactory supply of nudes. But by week's end a number called Kyoto Doll was turning nightly into a rousing scene of near rape...
...first anniversary of the July 14 revolution in Iraq and for a week Baghdad was all holiday celebration. Down the hot, dusty streets where a year ago mobs dragged the mutilated bodies of Nuri asSaid and Crown Prince Abdul Illah, clowns danced, balloons bobbed, Girl Scouts marched, a giant papier-máché fist rolled by on a float, clutching the viper of imperialism, and a military camel in the parade, poked playfully by happy patriots, turned and spat expertly in their eyes. And under the crisp salute of Premier Karim Kassem-hero of the revolution and a year...
...been anything but an easy year. He had kept Iraq from a Nasser takeover, despite anxious moments such as the Mosul revolt in March, but only at the cost of accepting more help from the street-organizing Communists than was healthy. In a characteristic compromise last week before the holiday began, Kassem reshuffled his Cabinet, adding three minor-league Communist sympathizers (including Iraq's first woman minister, a practicing gynecologist), but effectively demoting the once powerful fellow-traveling Minister of Economics Ibrahim Kubba to Minister of Agrarian Reform...
...more interested in starting opportunities than starting salaries," he decided early in the year to organize a class-run hunt for jobs in business-small business. Eager second-year students put up $15 apiece to help pay the expenses of six classmates, whom they dispatched during the Christmas holiday on prospecting tours of California, the Middle West, the Southwest, the New York City area, upper New York State and southern New England...
Died. Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice reflected the tragedy of her own life; in Manhattan. Born of indigent teenagers, schooled in a Baltimore brothel, she stubbornly nursed her resentment, poured it out in songs that reached their height of popularity in the early '40s - Billie's Blues, The Man I Love, above all, Strange Fruit, a description of a Negro lynching in the South - succumbed to the dope addiction which dogged...