Word: one
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...one cell they put the old and broken toys that had been collected-dolls without arms or legs, bicycles without wheels, Teddy bears without eyes. They made tiny wooden doll furniture, welded miniature sports cars, restuffed drooping Pinocchios. Gradually, the cell with the old toys emptied, while the one next door turned into a wonderland. The boys and girls arrived in cars and buses on Saturday last week-three weeks before Christmas in order to get in ahead of the mid-December rains-for the big event on the sports field...
...Nauseating," cried London's Daily Telegraph. "A deliberate gesture of contempt," roared Lord Beaverbrook's Express. Just as angrily, Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria retorted: "Suppose we make not one but a thousand museums to commemorate the horrible attack on us-what business is that of London's?" Stiffening his upper lip, Selwyn Lloyd took the view that Nasser could not have known of the insult in advance...
...week, eying the fancy suits, coats, smokingi and fraki (tails). But inside, clerks told disappointed shoppers that these were "future" models. All they had for sale was the familiar old line of $80 and $120 suits, featuring outmoded double-breasted jackets and bell-bottomed trousers. "A drab selection," scribbled one customer in the shop's complaint book. "No quality suits. I am shocked, filled with indignation." "Outrageous," wrote another. "Patterns bad, workmanship careless...
...under a cloud, and his glamorous female Minister of Housing and Local Government was jailed on charges of complicity in the assassination. Moreover, Ceylon's economy was in bad shape, and Daha's chaotic Sri Lanka Freedom Party was so badly split that the regime survived one no-confidence motion by only one vote. Last week, after 70 days in office, Daha decided it was time to quit, with a capital Q. Dissolving Parliament, Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke called for new elections March 19. In the meantime, Dahanayake will head an interim government...
Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the no-medals-to-dictators policy, which came only after all but two of the dictators had fallen, and the $1 billion Inter-American Development Bank, which seemingly grew out of the stoning of Vice President Nixon...