Word: kurd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that would turn almost any sky to buttermilk. Out in the state of Washington, rich, square-shooting Stanley Weston is engaged to Marigold Wade, a rancher's daughter. But Marigold keeps putting off the wedding so she can continue a flirtation with her father's foreman, handsome Kurd Blanding. Along from Idaho comes Marigold's cousin, a young lovely named Lark Burrell, and Stanley soon realizes that he is falling in love with...
...Wyeth's own life was both swift and deep. Dead at 62, he left behind him a widened world of imagination and a family dedicated to the arts (besides Andrew, Wyeth's daughter Henriette and son-in-law Peter Kurd are distinguished painters). Soon after N. C.'s death, his son Andrew painted a picture of a boy running downhill. "For me," Andy says, "the bulges of that hill seem to be breathing-rising and falling-almost as if my father were underneath them...
Ethnically Syria is a melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem. Besides orthodox Moslems, there are Jews, five major varieties of Christian, a sprinkling of devil worshipers and 117,000 Druses, hard-bitten mountaineers who hate Christians, are free to ignore Moslem fasts and believe that an 11th century Egyptian caliph was the last incarnation...
Scientists at Barnes Engineering Co. have developed an automated lathe that obediently turns out a variety of parts by following the coded instructions printed on a tape, which in turn direct a servomechanism system. Says International Business Machines' Di rector of Applied Science Dr. Cuthbert C. Kurd: "If we don't have min iaturization, we'd soon have plants measuring ten miles by ten miles...
...great accolade to you for Peter Kurd's portrait of Duke Ellington on your Aug. 20 cover. The accompanying article was a great tribute to a fine gentleman, musician and composer. He will be remembered as one of the alltime greats of jazz music in America...