Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accordance with a presidential proclamation, the nation observed "Safe-Driving Day" last week. Across the land, drivers were warned to be especially careful by the President's Action Committee for Traffic Safety in the hope that, for one 24-hour period, death would take a holiday on U.S. highways...
...spite of the approaching season of holiday cheer, television's week began like a vast coast-to-coast autopsy. March of Medicine performed a gory operation on a man's heart artery in front of the TV cameras. Medic, sounding less and less like a Dragnet-in-bandages and more and more like daytime soap opera, told a pathetic story about a young girl with breast cancer. Robert Montgomery presented a full hour of smilin' through muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis. But while he recuperated, the televiewer was able to find cheerier fare...
...Callander, Ont., word leaked that Marie Dionne, 20, smallest and quietest of the four surviving Dionne quintuplets (TIME, Aug. 16), who a month ago came home from a Montreal college for a holiday, had neither gone back to school nor been seen outside the big Dionne mansion since her return. At Marguerite Bourgeoys College, officials claimed that Marie had been sick. But Oliva ("Papa") Dionne said no, Marie was not ailing, just lonely and sick of the school...
...presidential plane Columbine III was ready, after weeks of test flights, to carry Ike and his party to a Thanksgiving holiday* at the Augusta, Ga. National Golf Club. Before takeoff, Mamie Eisenhower christened the new Super-Constellation in a brief ceremony at Washington's National Airport, using, instead of the traditional champagne, a soda bottle full of water from Colorado's north fork of the South Platte River (a favorite presidential trout stream...
COLORADO Like many plainsmen, Fred Schwartzwalder was enormously impressed when he first saw the Rocky Mountains. That was 30 years ago, after Fred and his young wife Martha moved to Golden, Colo, from the prairies of Iowa. Schwartzwalder fell completely under the spell of the Rockies; every weekend and holiday he spent hiking and exploring the rugged hills around Golden. He often brought home samples of curious rocks to show his wife and to decorate their meager basement apartment. In his backyard a sizable cairn of rock samples gradually accumulated-a monument to Fred Schwartzwalder's ab sorption...