Word: openings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back in Oregon, Democratic leaders blanched in dismay. Wayne Morse had left the G.O.P. in wreckage. Now, as a Democrat, he was proposing to blow his latest party wide open. Said a top Oregon Democrat distractedly: "This is harmful to the party. There's a hard core for Neuberger and a very hard core for Morse. But what the hell about the middle? It gets down to this: What good can come out of this for the party...
...Ministry of Housing at last decided that Barbican should be turned into an oasis of apartment buildings, shops, schools and "open spaces." A year later the City Corporation set up a 16-man Barbican committee headed by a forward-looking city councilor named Eric Wilkins, 57. A team of young architects was hired to draw up a master plan for a combined residential, business and cultural center, largely for middle-class people who work in the City. Last week Londoners were trooping into Guildhall to view $56 million worth of possible things to come...
...room hotel, hostels and residence halls for students, a sports center leading onto a vast open-air garden...
...Albert, whose proposed marriage to Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria at the Vatican had set off an anticlerical uproar in Belgium (TIME, June 8). Normally. Baudouin would have gone directly from the airport to his Laeken palace, bypassing busy Brussels, with its snarled, honking traffic. Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police and a battalion of gendarmes were needed to hold back the curious crowds. Flowers showered down on the smiling King, who won cheers by nimbly catching bouquets in midair. Cried a plump Brussels housewife...
Each week hundreds of such hapless "volunteers" are packed into open trucks and, guarded by African "boss boys" with stout leather sjamboks (whips), shipped to distant farms for three or six months, often unable even to notify relatives or employers that they are leaving. South African police instituted the system in 1954, but its workings were not generally known, even in South Africa, until 33-year-old Johannesburg Lawyer Joel Carlson started a series of habeas corpus actions fortnight...