Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENERAL MIGUEL YDIGORAS FUENTES, 62, representative of the far right who riotously upset a try by followers of assassinated President Carlos Castillo Armas to put over a feeble successor in a quick and easy election last October. Although Ydi-goras' protesting street mobs reflected every hue in the political spectrum, his support comes from big plantation owners, industrialists and conservative Roman Catholics...
...name: Pauline Benda). "Several years ago," according to an acquaintance, "she stationed her age at a permanent 75." She reads a novel a day, still manages to take a personal interest in handsome young writers. Madame Simone is haughtily and heartily despised by the "Blue" faction (named for the hue of its blood), led by a scientist, mathematician and relative youngster, the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, 62. An oldtime suffragette and notorious pincher of sous (says a fellow juror: "She dresses in a splendid mink coat lined with rayon"), the Duchesse blazed in protest when her arch-antagonist grandly announced...
...maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending a high-level emissary to Bonn to ask West Germany to plead Israel's case with the other NATO nations, almost was forced to resign when left-wing members of the Cabinet raised a hue...
...gathering hue and cry proclaims that the academic professionals have been subsidizing undergraduates for half a century. Although this theory has received its latest boost from Devereux Josephs' Committee on Education beyond High School, its inventor and leading local proponent is Seymour Harris, who should know better...
...Confucius and other sages-will be rebuilt in Saigon (the original is in now-Communist Hanoi). A' highbrow Confucian monthly will continue to expound ethics, and the literary contests begun in the sage's time will be revived. The Confucian Ballet of the Imperial City of Hue, which has rehearsed for ten years without a public performance, patiently continues, behind closed doors, to seek perfection. Boasted one scholar on last week's feast day: "Confucius will remain the model of perfection for 10,000 generations to come...