Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, visiting British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd conferred on the rocket-rattling letter. At conference's end, word leaked out that they had turned thumbs down on any immediate Geneva summit meeting but might be willing to talk summit again after the close of the U.N. debate...
Illinois Institute of Technology's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, architect of stark, skeletal glass and steel skyscrapers. Widely reckoned to be one of this century's three most influential architects (with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier), German-born Mies was trained as a stonemason. He headed Germany's revolutionary Bauhaus group of artists and architects from 1930 until Nazi pressure forced him to close it in 1933, migrated to the U.S. in 1938. Popular renown came, along with occasional harsh words from Wright and other critics, with Mies's design of Illinois Tech...
Joining the Golf Society of Great Britain as its 1,000th member, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (handicap: 18), received a sturdy, useful gift: a wedge, "not for getting you into holes, but out of trouble." Posing like a duffer (head up, grip too far down on the shaft) with his new club, Lloyd mused about some off-course problems: "I am not a good golfer. But I am wondering whether this club is appropriate for a game of Summitry. I do, I know, spend quite a lot of time in the rough. I have a bad stance. I often have...
...station promptly suspended him, next day was swamped by the greatest flood of mail and phone calls in its history. "We've never had such literate and highly abusive calls before," admitted bemused KCOP. Telegrams poured in, including one from Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, himself a curmudgeon of stature: "Have just canceled order for my 15th Philco. I don't need anybody either. But you are a good deed in a naughty world." Snorted Oscar himself: "My leaving Channel 13 is a catastrophe for the community. The channel will now revert to its cloacal status with such intellectual...
...Yozo what present he wants from Tokyo, his first impulse is to answer: "Nothing." ("The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference.") To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan...