Word: hues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Tran Trung Dung, 42, Vietnamese Deputy Minister for National Defense since March 1955; and Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh ("The Nightingale"), 21, doll-like niece of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Hue, Viet...
Chicago Publisher John H. Johnson (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950), who has launched three other money-making magazines, Jet, Tan and Hue, in Ebony's wake, has had to weather some major setbacks. Ebony, flourishing at first on a spicy diet of sex and sensation, dropped 100,000 circulation last year. Publisher Johnson, 37, countered with a drive for home subscribers, dropped cheesecake and gossip for more serious reporting of Negroes in the news, and won back his readers. Johnson learned the hard way that the new-style Ebony is more in tune with its readers' interests. Says...
...warning lights, apparently, fail to attract University Police. Discriminating in their choice of colors, these gentlemen are fascinated by another shade: orange. In fact, they seem so enamored by this duller hue that they amuse themselves during the dark of night and early morn distributing samples to cars parked on local streets. Never before have the streets of Cambridge been so enthusiastically decorated...
...created the first language-based state, Andhra, under pressure from Telegu-speaking people of Madras, whose rioting was sparked by Communist agitators. The example of Andhra inspired language groups all over India to cultivate what Nehru branded as "fissiparous tendencies" and to demand their own states. The Babel-like hue and cry would have seemed ominous, indeed, but for a happy outcome in Andhra. There, in the first state election, with language no longer an issue, the Communists could no longer whip up hatreds, and were themselves soundly whipped. Thus encouraged, Nehru saw advantages in giving as many people...
...buffalo, and badlands and canyons filled with antelope, deer and elk, they reached the trappers' legendary Roche Jaune River (Yellowstone). Then came the Milk, the Judith, which Clark named for his future wife, and the Marias, which Lewis named "in honour of Miss Maria W-d." though "the hue of the waters ... but illy comport with the pure celestial virtues and amiable qualifications of that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled two guns. The party...