Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liliane disappeared. Eventually she turned up in another clinic telling a wild story. Before he became ill, said Liliane, Moumié had told her, "If anything ever happens to me you must get hold of my briefcase at any cost." After leaving Moumié in the hospital, she said she had taken the case, hired a taxicab to take her to Paris, where she delivered the briefcase to the ambassadors of Ghana and Guinea. "They were crazy with joy to get it," she said. Returning to Geneva, she said she had seen a headline that police were looking...
...that his slipped disc will keep him out of action for another three months. With "great reluctance," brother Dwight accepted his resignation from advisory committees on Government organization and inter-American affairs. In London to be a 20th Century-Fox movie version of Cleopatra, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor has lain ill for four weeks-at an "astronomical" cost in lost shooting time to Producer Walter Wanger. With a low, persistent fever, Liz was confined to the London Clinic, where she was under the care of two of Queen Elizabeth II's personal physicians. A semi-medical diagnosis of her mysterious...
...fourth year, the Harvard Opera Guild offered five productions. It provided unpretentious fun in the fall with Workshop productions of Menotti's The Telephone and Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Suzanne. Ill-advisedly, the Group mounted in the spring a new English translation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, which, except for the Blonda of Vivian Thomas '60, was far beyond the abilities of everyone concerned...
...with Nixon's rough campaign for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Jack Kennedy was silent on the condemnation of Joe McCarthy, who was, in fact, a friend of Joe Kennedy's. For months after the Senate voted for condemnation, Kennedy pleaded that he had been critically ill at the time, as he was. But there was time to let his sentiments be known, and no need to have been one of two Senators to go unrecorded. (The other: Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, McCarthy's colleague.) Finally, taxed by Eleanor Roosevelt for his silence, he announced...
...puritans presiding over the sybaritic center of the old South Seas, they rapidly got a name as Southeast Asia's most honest administrators. Certainly their streets were the cleanest. But Prime Minister Lee, a wealthy, Cambridge-schooled Chinese, soon grasped that Singapore by itself is an island emporium ill suited to revolutionary socialism since, among other things, it lacks any major industries to nationalize. His revised economic policy: "Teaching the capitalists how to run their system...