Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though her visit was billed as unofficial (and the U.S. was thus spared the need of according full honors), Queen Frederika had a serious purpose for her presence. Greece is soon to start operating its first nuclear reactor, and with King Paul, Frederika has become a student of nuclear physics. "For my part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want...
...NATO ambassadors in Paris one day last week went a brusque message: "Emergency." Within the hour, the ambassadors gathered around a big green conference table in the Palais de Chaillot. NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak put it to them bluntly. "At stake," said he, "is the very reputation of NATO itself...
...weeks, in private chats, in special sessions, owlish, bustling Paul-Henri Spaak has been sounding out three squabbling NATO partners-Britain, Greece and Turkey-begging them to settle their agonizing, paralyzing quarrel over Cyprus, which has all but broken up NATO's defenses in the Eastern Mediterranean. He was not even able to get the participants to agree to sit down together at a conference table...
...Honorable mentions: Japan's Minoru Kawabata, 47; France's Edouard Pignon, 53; Canada's Jean-Paul Riopelle, 35; Portugal's Maria Helena Vieira da Silva...
...Died. Paul Beisman, 60, longtime manager of St. Louis' American Theater (36 years) and outdoor Municipal Opera (28 years), former president of the Legitimate Independent Theaters of North America; of cancer; in St. Louis. Beisman ran the huge, concrete "Muny" Opera like a ballpark, became an expert on what Variety calls the ozoning end of show business. As manager of the American Theater, Beisman was widely recognized for keeping non-Broadway U.S. theater alive...