Word: mets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From this sure base Dulles faced up to his times with an unusual diplomatic consistency. His first battleground: the Far East. His first decision: the scores of struggles under way along Red China's borders and from Korea to Malaya should be rated and met as one. His first move: the U.S. ordered the Seventh Fleet, then under orders by President Truman to neutralize the Formosa Strait, to desist from protecting Red China against any Nationalist China attack. At once his critics derided President Eisenhower for "unleashing Chiang," but Dulles had the argument of later events on his side...
...Europe, where he won some notice but not top billing as an actor in German films and TV. Last week Al Hoosman found himself an acknowledged champion at last-champion of the 5,000 luckless children born in Germany to U.S. Negro G.I.s and the German women they met during the occupation...
...split is chiefly between Figueres and Castro, and it began when the Cuban government invited Figueres last month to look in on the revolution that he helped to power by supplying a planeload of arms. For 2½ days, Figueres fruitlessly sought an appointment with Castro; the two finally met on a platform where they were scheduled to speak. Castro greeted him coldly, saying: "Don't embarrass me about Puerto Rico"-a place Figueres admires as progressive and Castro mistrusts as colonial-"and don't create any international problems for me." Figueres buttoned his lip about Puerto Rico...
Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 42, current No. 1 Playboy of the Western World, met Ana Maria de Carvalho, 18, during Brazil's carnival in lazy, colonial Salvador, capital of Bahia state. Disguised as an Arabian sheik, he was tossing ice cubes and confetti, brawling in nightclubs, when he spotted eye-filling (Miss Bahia, 1958) Ana Maria right on Salvador's main stem. Baby stopped, whistled, shouted, "Hey, beautiful!" But Ana Maria, blue-blooded daughter of a wealthy Bahian cattle rancher, industrialist and political potentate, sniffed: "Impertinent and presumptuous...
...their first U.S. tour. They selected the top 110 dancers from a total company of 250, including Ulanova's chief rival, Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who for rumored political reasons had not appeared in the West before. With them came 40 tons of scenery, scaled down to fit the Met stage (a third smaller than the Bolshoi's home stage), and a generous ham-perful of the meat-and-potatoes favorites with which the company regularly sells out its home season. Because of the difficulty of shifting the Bolshoi's ponderous sets on the Met's antiquated...