Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of two Pops Concerts tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. Music, which will originate from the steps of Widener, will include selections from "The King and I," "My Fair Lady," and Sousa marches: and the first three movements of "Suite of Old American Dances" and "The Bugler's Holiday...
Recess was over, and the foreign ministers of East and West headed back to the rote and routine of Geneva. Most of them had sensibly spent the three-week holiday away from their books. France's Couve de Murville took a jaunt with President de Gaulle to Rome and Madagascar. The U.S.'s Christian Herter got in some sailing on the choppy waters of Massachusetts Bay. For Britain's Selwyn Lloyd there were long English weekends at Chequers. Even Russia's Andrei Gromyko presumably took some dour relaxation, though he also returned to Geneva with Khrushchev...
...indicate publicly ... or privately [a personal preference], because I don't think it is correct or right." ¶ Observed the 43rd anniversary of his marriage to Mamie Geneva Doud with a seasoned philosophy: "I can just say it's been a very happy experience . . ." ¶ Interrupted a holiday weekend with his family and a few old friends at his Maryland mountain retreat, Camp David, to return to Washington by helicopter on Independence Day, lay the cornerstone of the Capitol's new east portico, using the same ceremonial trowel that George Washington used at the cornerstone dedication...
...half a century, The Netherlands' devout ex-Queen Wilhelmina, 78, has devoutly considered Amsterdam's good, grey Algemeen Handelsblad a routine part of breakfast. But recently, Wilhelmina leafed through her favorite newspaper and was shocked, on the Dutch religious holiday known as White Thursday, to find Nikita Khrushchev depicted in successive panels of a political cartoon as an angel of peace and, in turn, a fanged monster. It was all supposed to demonstrate how Khrushchev has posed as both do-gooder and demon in waging his war of nerves over West Berlin. But it was too sacrilegious...
...settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...