Word: lateraling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORMOSA Ten Years Later One bitter December afternoon in 1949, as the Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C-54 for a seven-hour flight to his last place of refuge, Formosa. He found little but desolation. U.S. air raids had shattered the efficient Japanese-built factories, and food production was sagging. Morale was at its lowest ebb, for few Formosans had faith in the Nationalist government that...
...dinner in Vientiane, Premier Phoui Sananikone fervently repeated that his country was determined to stay out of the cold war, and Hammarskjold pointedly replied that "all Laos' friends will rejoice in that statement." Five days later, having thus made it clear that he was not on hand to disturb Laotian neutrality (which was imposed by the 1954 Geneva agreement), Hammarskjold was able to proceed with his plan. He invited Economics Expert Sakari Tuomioja, conservative-minded onetime Premier of Finland, to go to Laos as the Secretary-General's personal representative...
...wife, Queen Damali, and the King's brother, Prince Juko, in the shrubbery of the palace grounds. Worst of all, Prince Juko had been clad only in underpants. The King sternly announced that Queen Damali was to be confined incommunicado to her room for the present, and would later be exiled to the lonely Sese Islands, 30 miles offshore in Lake Victoria. The assembled advisers were not terribly impressed by the King's evidence, since they-and all Buganda-were well aware that the King wants to divorce Queen Damali so that he could marry his great...
Tanksgiving Day. Near Pryor, Okla., after discovering that somebody was stealing gasoline from drums on his farm, crafty Elmer Southern filled them with water, was rewarded a few days later by seeing three boys pushing their car on a nearby road, called the sheriff to come and nab the crooks...
...took a year to complete, and cost $1,000,000. The race itself, which runs only nine minutes on the screen, ran three months before the cameras and cost another million. Three months before the shooting stopped, Production Manager Henry Henigson had a serious heart attack, and two weeks later Producer Sam Zimbalist had a fatal one. By the time the cameras had finally stopped rolling, MGM's London laboratories had processed, at a cost of $1 a foot, some 1,250,000 feet of special, 65-mm. Eastman Color film...