Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bomb in August. At week's end Sukarno seemed to be treating his latest dilemma as airily as those of the past. He chucked schoolgirls under the chin, pursed his lips over the prophecies of his latest favorite soothsayer ("A great bomb will drop in August! There will be trouble everywhere"). His wife, Hartini, gave birth to a son at the presidential summer palace 35 miles south of Djakarta, making Sukarno a father for the seventh time. Because his own Nationalist Party was rapidly losing touch with the masses, Sukarno has leaned increasingly on the Communists. He admires their...
...well. In the soft scented night each village resounds with the rhythmic, curiously tuneful gamelan music of bowl-shaped gongs, bamboo flutes, metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything in his path...
Behind the smile, Ydigoras was very much in earnest. A onetime follower of Dictator Jorge Ubico (1931-44), Ydigoras had fought two elections in the past four months. When he ran behind in the first, his followers cried fraud, rioted in the streets and forced the government to nullify the results. With the support of an amalgam of big landlords and conservative Roman Catholics, he won the second election six weeks ago with a 39% of the vote in a four-man race. But until the victory was confirmed by Congress, the threat of mob violence hung over Guatemala City...
...lights-out-at-10:30 Elizabeth Arden camp: "Miss Separate Table, that was me. Everyone else was dieting. I was trying to put on some weight." Then with gusto Bea recalled: "One night some of us-and I won't say which-sneaked out the window, past the guards and rushed into Phoenix. There was a loud bar there and a very real cowboy. It was wonderful. He didn't know who I was. and all I know about him was that he was very big and kissed me good night. We got back to the ranch about...
...invitation is from a ballad called Come to Me. and the voice that has boosted it onto the charts belongs to Negro Singer Johnny Mathis. With the help of some canny promotion, 22-year-old Singer Mathis has also boosted himself during the past year into the most valuable new property in show business. Last week, for the sake of "prestige" (and $2,000 a week plus a percentage of the take), Johnny checked into the Venetian Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and showed the home-town folks how he had made it big so fast...