Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mahant Raghvir Dass, high priest of Delhi's Hanuman (Monkey God) temple, made a direful prediction: "The 13 months after May 5, 1955, will be inauspicious for marriages." The news had Delhi state in a marital dither last week. Unmarried thousands hurried to get hitched before the full moon in the sign of Vrischika...
...lighter note, Walt Disney's Tomorrowland (ABC, Wed. 7:30 p.m., E.S.T.) made its bow with a lively film-and-animation look at man's attempts to reach the moon via rocket ship. Most authentic touch: the serious, heavily accented explanation of the nation's own German born rocket experts, Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun. To pay a Person-to-Person (CBS Fri. 10:30 p.m., E.S.T.) visit to Internal Revenue Boss T. Coleman Andrews at his modest 4½-room apartment in Parkfairfax, Va., CBS's Ed Murrow unearthed an odd fact: Collector Andrews...
...picks up shell after shell during her seaside musings, Author Lindbergh seems to hear in them the murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell reminds her of the importance of solitude. Finally, the paper nautilus recalls the free ebb and flow which she thinks necessary in all good human relationships...
...review of Wages of Fear is one of the finest pieces of writing I have read in many moon. I had the misfortune of seeing this picture before reading your review, I must agree that ... its message is "hate America...
...waxing moon silvered the green hillside fields and sand dunes that make up the Gaza strip - the 6-mile by 30-mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the ancient city of Gaza, had put his chair under a tree beside the trenches along the road. At the outpost up the hill toward the Israeli border, guards heard voices calling out in Arabic...