Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summoned back to his side his most famed oldtime lieutenant. As his new finance minister, he chose Oswaldo Aranha, 59. Like Getulio, a gaucho from Brazil's south, Oswaldo was field commander of the 1930 revolution that first brought Vargas to power. In the heyday of the Good Neighbor policy, he became Vargas' popular envoy in the U.S. and his stoutly pro-allied foreign minister during World War II. As a member of the conservative opposition after the war, he embarked on a career at the U.N. that led to presidency of the General Assembly in 1947. With...
Revolution in Connecticut. Moving to New Canaan, Conn, in 1946, Noyes built himself a flat-roofed modern house, convinced a neighbor that he ought to have one too. Soon, modern houses were sprouting like dandelions in New Canaan, and Architect Noyes built a dozen of the handsomest-gay, roomy homes with lots of glass, flat, sweeping lines, and without the stark, cold look that makes many modern homes so forbidding. Prices: $15,000 to $150,000. Noyes likes to plan a whole house down to built-in furniture and faucets, does not believe in drawing a line between the architect...
...failure in Charles Erwin Wilson's career. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his father, Thomas Wilson, was principal of the local public school, Erwin Wilson (as his friends called him) had a traditional boyhood: the swimming hole, a pony, stolen rides on railroad handcars, improvised shows in a neighbor's barn (with Erwin Wilson as the magician). The Wilson family moved to Pittsburgh in 1904. At Pittsburgh's Bellevue High and later at Carnegie Tech, Erwin was a fair to middling athlete (basketball and football), and a bright and dogged student...
...more than twice the size of California and rich in palm oil, tin and perhaps uranium, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. Under a federal constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria...
...life with Rosa: i) he had served her breakfast in bed for 20 years; 2) she kicked him while he was scrubbing the floor; 3) she smashed her glass when he put water in her gin; 4) she accepted love letters and liquor from his next-door neighbor; 5) he was so terrified of her that he frequently slept on the floor -"an unpleasant experience in winter...