Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, twin-engined plane had apparently been flying low, and investigators guessed that the distinguished passenger in the copilot's seat must have ordered the pilot to do so because he wanted to get a closer look at the coffee plantations he owned in the area. The plane never reached its destination. Two days later a search party found its wreckage-and with it the body of the distinguished passenger: Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic...
Bigger & Better. Unlike Washington, California attracts few experienced rowers, and Ebright must build his men from scratch. Twice a year he looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright...
...centuries the Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine has stood serene and safe beneath the shoulder of Mount Sinai. Founded in 527 by the Emperor Justinian, it is in one of the world's most inhospitable places. A traveler must drive 100 miles southeast from Suez across jagged wilderness, then turn off along a succession of dry stream beds for an eight-hour climb to the gates, 5,000 feet above the Red Sea. Its one tiny door swings open only for men bearing letters of introduction from the Greek Archbishop of Cairo...
...heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several noodle-lengths over the head of George Babbitt, who answers: "Oh, I-yes. That must be nice to try that...
...words from President Eisenhower had the ring of a command. "They must do it, and they must do it in such a way that the price is not compelled to go up." Rarely does the President use such strong words in matters of labor-management relations, but rarely are strong words more necessary...