Word: noon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Make It Prompt. Next day at noon, the Supreme Court chamber was again charged with suspense. The overhead clocks ticked off the minutes as spectators moved quietly to the handful of seats and a hundred more lined up outside. U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers slipped in quietly. So did some wives and children of the Justices. Soon two page boys in knickers and high black socks mounted the bench, pushed the nine chairs back and forth to see if they rolled easily, made sure that each Justice was provided with his customary pencil, scissors and paper...
...arbitrate rights to the Indus River waters. This summer, trouble flared along East Pakistan's ill-marked borders, and once again Pakistan's Moslem Leaguers whooped it up for holy war. Customarily, any politician who talks on India in conciliatory tones risks political suicide. But Feroz Khan Noon, the tall, Oxford-educated aristocrat who became Pakistan's seventh Prime Minister last winter, decided that such irresponsible fire-breathing had gone on too long. Bluntly warning that "U.S. military aid will stop if Pakistan talks in terms of war," Noon challenged the zealots: "If you think...
...Noon's words won quick response from India's Nehru, who has long considered the border incidents "an intolerable nuisance." Last week Prime Minister Noon flew to New Delhi with his handsome, Hungarian-born Begum for the first meeting of Prime Ministers of the two countries since 1955. Nehru sprang gallantly forward to retrieve Begum Noon's golden slipper when it fell as she stepped out of the plane. He escorted them to the high-domed Presidential House, and the talks began. The two leaders quickly worked out an agreement to trade several small enclaves along...
...noon, Harold has worked his way to Sage's where he invests in two dwarfed loaves of French bread (one thin dime apiece). From Brattle Street he ventures to Radcliffe to watch workmen labor over Ada M. Comstock, and eats his loaves of bread. There is a near-by drinking fountain...
Last week, speaking to a closed-door caucus of his Republican Party in Lahore, Prime Minister Noon let it be known that there was something more to his remarks than that. By promising "active cooperation'' with other Moslem countries. Noon hoped to cut the ground from under the opposition leaders who charge that Pakistan has "sold out" to the "Anglo-American bloc." He was not turning against the West exactly, but was inching closer to Nasser's Arab nationalism. If Iraq wants to merge with Nasser's United Arab Republic, he asked, "what reason...