Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, was invited for a ride, no sooner got one foot on the little carriage step than the whole shebang lit off around a snowy track at full speed. Jaunty and chipper, he hung on, alighted at last with a gallant swoop of his hat, as Mrs. Eaton cooed: "You're the bravest man I've ever heard of." Eaton, who regards himself as a kind of missionary for Russian-U.S. coexistence (see BUSINESS), received the gift-a memento from Khrushchev of his visit to Russia last September-with the sentimental hope that "between these...
...moved ceaselessly through government lines with the intelligence and supplies that were oxygen for the Sierra Maestra fire. The jump-off point for most was underground headquarters in a medical laboratory in eastern Santiago, less than a mile from the government fortress. It was operated as a cover by Mrs. Herminia Santos Bush, a handsome, steely matron whose rebel doctor-husband had been forced to flee. There, under flaring skirts, the rebellion's girls donned canvas harnesses equipped with pockets, loaded themselves with messages, gun parts, radios. One day four girls, chattering gaily, drove into rebel territory with...
With Ike & Rocky. His trip to the U.S. will be the first state visit ever made to the U.S. by an Argentine President (although Frondizi saw the country as a tourist in 1948). He will be met at Washington's National Airport by President and Mrs. Eisenhower. In three days in Washington, Frondizi will dine with the Eisenhowers and Secretary of State Dulles. A longtime Congressman himself, he will address a joint session of Congress. Also on the ten-day itinerary: a weekend in colonial Williamsburg; a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, talks with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...MRS. BRIDGE (254 pp.) - Evan S. Connell Jr.-Viking...
...everyday crises and commonplaces, stupidities and minor conquests, emotions half understood and alternatives wholly missed. Unlike choleric, Mom-baiting Philip Wylie, Author Connell sees the Mom of his first novel as a saccharine, easily swayed and sympathetic character. Far from monstrously dominating her husband and three children, Mrs. Bridge is so tame and timid that her daughter Carolyn says coldly: "Listen, Mother, no man is ever going to push me around the way Daddy pushed you around...