Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JULY: LEBANON. When Arab nationalism, fanned by United Arab Republic President Nasser, blasted pro-Western Iraq out of the Middle East's dwindling pro-Wrestern line-up in one night's murderous palace revolution, the U.S. sent Sixth Fleet marines and Army paratroops into Lebanon at Lebanon's request to secure it from overthrow by Nasserite rebels. Results: the U.S. 1) stabilized the situation in Lebanon for a few crucial months at least, 2) demonstrated to its allies worldwide that it was able and ready to support them, 3) showed above all that the Russians, when confronted...
...Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home to mother...
Tidying Up. A committee resolution proposed that a worker might be more efficient if he got at least eight hours' sleep a night and was fed "decent food." The Central Committee promised a "tidying up, consolidation and expansion" of the rural communes-but then revealingly added that, for the present, communes would not be extended to urban centers because "bourgeois ideology is still prevalent in the cities." Tibet (where Red troops have their hands full with the rebellious Khamba tribesmen) was also exempted from the dubious joys of the people's communes. The Communists now soft-pedal their...
...very first night that she appeared Downstairs this month, one of Tammy's fancier fans followed her cautiously into her dank basement dressing room and asked modestly, "Would you mind reading a script of mine?" The wraith maintained her poise in the face of Noel Coward, managed to say: "I'd like to." A couple of days later, after a ten-minute reading, the cleft-chinned Lorelei of the West Fifties was signed for the lead in Coward's new comedy, Look After Lulu, due to open in late February...
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A sentimental musical journey through Manhattan night life, aided by Pianist Erroll Garner, Singers Eartha Kitt, Hildegarde, Bill Tabbert, and Opera Soprano Lisa Delia Casa...