Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Genially hosted the entire thousand-guest conference-Governors, aides, newsmen, wives, children-for a half-day's free play at brother Laurance's $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel and Golf Club, cheered others on to fun and frolic but kept himself busy at his political chores except for one much-photographed ocean...
...having proved his courage in crisis, the King still finds his efforts to achieve stability in Jordan blocked by the Palestinian refugees, that disgruntled one-third of the nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could...
Quadros' ploy neatly bracketed the position of his rival Lott, who is also backed by the Communists and came out against Brazilian-Soviet relations to forestall charges of making pacts with the Reds. Quadros fears no such label, can afford a play for increased trade. The idea was an immediate hit at home...
...might be in the mood to buy), but it would all get pretty dull without the shows. To hold the customers' attention, the gaudy hotel nightclubs rely on big old names (Sinatra, Dietrich, Tucker), but they also reach out for newcomers. Last week new acts got a big play in the neon-painted desert...
...landed in Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, Ky. Captain Robert L. Rainey and Lieut. Colonel David L. Deutsch found nothing wrong with him except dermographia-his skin was so sensitive that they could write on it with their fingers (TIME, Jan. 19). The doctors got him to play basketball. Within 15 minutes the patient had hives and a swollen left eye. He was released from the Army. But allergy to effort is so uncommon that goldbrickers trying to feign it will...