Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connery, who has been a correspondent in our Chicago bureau, first met the tall Tennesseean when they piled into a small plane together early last winter for a Wisconsin primary campaign tour. He covered the Senator during most of the primaries, stayed with him through the Democratic Convention in Chicago and picked him up again in the initial phase of his vice presidential campaign. While keeping pace with one of the most tireless campaigners the U.S. has ever known, Connery managed to find time to sniff out side stories and to interview the owners of the hands that shook...
...scene shifted to Cairo. There two men, by ordinary reckoning relatively minor contenders, met in the center of the ring with all the world looking on. Australia's white-haired Robert Gordon Menzies, assured and sagacious, faced Egypt's young Gamal Abdel Nasser, clever and ambitious. The stakes were high, the din was deafening and the outcome uncertain...
Attending Venice's 17th International Film Festival, two celebrated women from different worlds met on the city's fashionable Lido, and as they grasped hands, photographers hastened to record the event. The women: Italian Movie Star Gina Lollobrigida and U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce...
...taking accordion lessons, at 13 he was studying the big baritone horn to play in his high-school band. He picked up the trumpet without help, and the mellophone was no trouble at all after that, since it has the same fingering and a similar embouchure. One day he met a fellow who had two vibraphones and wanted a trumpet; it happened that Don had two trumpets, so that was that. By this time he was aware that he had an extraordinary flair for music, and after a hitch as tail gunner in the Air Corps, he went to school...
While Cairo's foreign press corps worriedly met to plan some defense against expulsion, Correspondent Stevenson flew to Rome and, in the black-and-white Japanese kimono that he wears while writing, pounded out the reply to his office's urgent cable to FILE STORY SOONEST MOSTEST BESTEST. Star readers soon learned in glittering detail that Stevenson first offended the Egyptians by trying twice in the same day-and getting arrested both times-to get an interview with Ex-Premier Mohammed Naguib, under house arrest 15 miles out of Cairo. What riled the Egyptians even more...