Word: last
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his wife and two sons, Writer Seamon lives in Port Washington, L.I., talks from his den to people all over the world through his single-sideband amateur radio station. One result of his hobby: putting through phone "patches" so servicemen overseas can talk to their families; last month he helped a professor in South Africa get a message to his son in The Bronx...
...Middle East gave way to the brown plains, the broad desert, the towering, snow-topped mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent. And as the earth's face changed beneath the speeding plane, something of the old, old world changed imperceptibly too. In Pakistan, Afghanistan and India last week, the shapes and colors and sounds of older centuries mingled and fell around Dwight Eisenhower, as in a vast kaleidoscope, into strange patterns. Each pattern formed a new sensation, each sensation was etched with the faces of the multitudes reaching out from the tangles of the past toward something...
...Presidents switched to a stately carriage drawn by six handsome horses. Under a gold-trimmed, brocaded red sun umbrella, Ike sat and waved, raised his hands to the crowds, and 60 colorfully garbed horsemen, former Bengal Lancers, trooped along with him carrying their traditional lances. When at last Ike alighted at the presidential palace, he turned in wonder to a flock of news photographers and said: "I hope you hard-boiled boys were a little bit impressed by this...
...varsity basketball team, after suppressing an early Tufts threat, coasted to a 75-66 victory last night at the IAB, its fifth against one loss. The Crimson, dominating both backboards, out-scrapped the Jumbos, who never led after the 5:15 mark...
...among noted beauties of the past. The Williams professor and I may disagree on who immortalized the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, but we would, I am sure, agree that disputation about her beauty would have been more becoming than was the Kampus Kutle Kontest that agitated Plympton St. last year...