Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorcade of 50 cars and trucks escorted by screaming German police cars, Baden-Baden was ready. A Saudi Arabian flag had even been found tucked away in the spa director's attic and streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept in by the Queen of Persia. "Too soft," he snapped. That night he rushed through a splendiferous eight-course dinner in just...
...foreign policy. As Prime Minister Diefenbaker watched anxiously, Smith replied: "Let me tell you a story. Charlie Comiskey of the White Sox brought a young pitcher up from the minors, sent him to the mound, and saw this young fellow's first three pitches blasted from the park. Comiskey went out to the catcher and asked: 'What's he got on the ball?' The catcher answered: 'I don't know. I haven't caught...
Rodeos to Generators. Boosting electrical output is a key phase in the drive to industrialize the state that is eighth largest in area but 47th in population. With only 321,000 inhabitants, Wyoming has long been known for its rodeos, dude ranches, and Yellowstone National Park. But industrially it lags far behind the rest of the nation and its Rocky Mountain neighbors. A few years back the people of Wyoming decided to take matters into their own hands. One result was the election in 1954 of Republican Governor Milward Lee Simpson...
...noon until the small hours of the morning, London's vast troop of trollops are busy as squirrels in the fashionable West End as well as in Limehouse. Many have regular stations. They throng four deep on the sidewalks under the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus, patrol Mayfair, Park Lane and-Bond Street with the lighthearted aplomb of 4-H members at a county fair. The attractions of prostitution in easygoing Britain are also luring large numbers of foreign women-French, German, Belgian, and a sprinkling of Negroes, mostly from the West Indies...
...town's harbor. They clapped pro-Batista officers in the brig and swept out through town in jeeps, carrying arms from the post arsenal. A 60-man troop of maritime police and some 200 pro-Castro civilians were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after a vicious fight that littered the street with dead, the building fell. By noon rebels controlled the city-the first such...