Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm near Fergus Falls, Minn, had become a grim effort to survive. Through the freezing winter Richter, 31, cared for his six small children so that his wife could clerk in a Fergus Falls clothing store. When spring came he went into his fields at 4 a.m., stayed until midnight fighting the soil for a fuller yield. But the bills piled...
...Russians entered the piano contest for the first time since the war-highly skilled and even more highly touted. One was Lazar Berman, 26. whose performance in the eliminations got rave reviews ("a stormy and sometimes savage nature but with absolutely sensational qualities"). Berman practiced from 9 a.m. to midnight, with time out for meals, went to bed with bleeding fingertips. He thought he played his final concert "rather well. But I always feel I played less well than I could." The second, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 18, who "stupefied" a critic with his technique and profound insight and his colleagues...
...inspired by ?5 wagers, went over the side into the noisome drink. As the vessel was cut loose from its moorings, the other guests, led by the huzzahing duke, chucked hats, umbrellas, dead champagne bottles, blossoms and most of the boat's lifebelts to the dunked two. At midnight the royal gay blade cruised on to another debutante party. After some frenzied jitterbugging, he hollered: "Let's have fun! I'm a bit fed up with being told what to do!" He bawled for more champagne, got it, was soon teetering along a narrow parapet...
...reacted to good news with boyish enthusiasm. When a midnight conference at the Rogers Hotel in Idaho Falls produced all twelve Idaho convention votes for him, he roamed the corridors searching for newsmen so they could telephone their papers. He found only one of his caravan's traveling reporters, who explained that the others were asleep, a call to New York where it was 3 a.m. would reach only the janitors. Harriman insisted the others be routed out. Said he: "This is the time they can get the story...
...midnight Nasser knew by telephone from his Paris embassy that the Mystère report was correct. All next day he thundered in speech after speech to his soldiers about "the West's continuing conspiracy," without attacking the U.S. by name. He announced the formation of a "huge" Palestinian army inside the Egyptian army, recruited among the 220,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza. Back in Cairo, 38-year-old Premier Nasser cried dramatically: "I have witnessed a turning point in the Middle East...