Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrival of democracy last week in Nepal's capital of Katmandu had a Himalayan flavor all its own. After an endless, crowded tea party on the green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by five huge chandeliers (Katmandu is often short of electric power). Advised by his court astrologers that the time was right, King Mahendra, 39, rose from his silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through...
...week. Employers' groups flatly rejected them, later made an unacceptably low offer. The unions refused arbitration, called the walkout instead. Most provincial papers-about 1,100 weeklies and 87 dailies-soon were forced to suspend operations completely. Others put on the old school try, produced truncated editions using midnight oil and ingenuity...
...affair that TIME reported in its June 15 cover story on Strauss, a story that prepared readers for the thorny issues and the thornier human personalities involved. With weekly journalism's advantages of second thought and third look, TIME this week reports the high drama of the post-midnight confirmation vote-not only the result, but how and why it came about, what the press said, and what the likely consequences are. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "This Sad Episode," and related stories...
...Past midnight, the bright white light atop the Capitol dome still shone over Washington, signaling that Congress was still in session. On the Senate floor, after six months of stalling, wrangling and maneuvering, U.S. history's bitterest battle over confirmation of a presidential appointment marched toward the showdown...
Teak was the name of the first of two high-altitude H-bombs set off by the U.S. over the Pacific near Johnston Island last summer. Lifted 40 miles above the earth by a Redstone missile, the bomb was detonated a few minutes before midnight. Out of the blackness came a fireball that grew to eleven miles in width in less than half a second and could be seen in Hawaii, 700 miles to the northeast. Its multicolored aurora was observed 3,000 miles away in Samoa. Some nights later a similar device, called Orange, was fired from 20 miles...