Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fumed Minutes. Everybody complained about the flood of campers who this season surged into the Riviera like a horde of Goths. They crowded together in vast enclosures, with their tents squeezed close to each other, and paid from 4? to 30? per night for the privilege of bedding down. As...
For four hours the ministers talked in the 90° heat. De Gaulle seemed to have decided on a plan, but gave his colleagues no inkling of what it was. Instead, he polled their views. A small group was for a harsh, unrelenting continuation of the war until Algeria could...
In the two decades since then, few foreigners have seen Bukhara. But its neighboring ancient cities on the vast Central Asian steppes seem to have learned their lesson. In the bustling streets of modern Tashkent and the redolent, mud-walled courtyards of Samarkand (pop. 170,000), short, moonfaced Uzbeks with...
Breaking into Prison. Life in Ecuador for Nate Saint, his trained-nurse wife Marjorie, and their three children was a story of emergencies and hardships that would pale the most jazzed-up TV script. Nate wrote of hairbreadth landings on narrow jungle airstrips that were "like parking a car at...
It's always been speed for Mickey Thompson, 30. who last week went to the annual Bonneville speed trials on the salt flats of Utah with Challenger I, the flashiest hot-rod of them all. To get ready for his run, Thompson quit his job as a pressman for...