Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...briefcase brigade that converged on restful Hershey, Pa. (pop. 5,300) one day last week looked like anything but a band of radicals. From six state capitals came six governors and their staffs -Illinois' Republican William Stratton; Pennsylvania's Democrat George Leader, Texas' Democrat Price Daniel, New Hampshire's Republican Lane Dwinell, Kansas' Democrat George Docking, Nebraska's Republican Victor Anderson. From Washington came a high-powered delegation headed by new Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Labor's Jim Mitchell, Health, Education and Welfare's Marion Folsom, and Budget Director Percival Brundage. Together...
...Compared with 8,346,137 pop. for London's 693 sq. mi., 7,771,509 for New York's 319 sq. mi. Greater Tokyo (which includes the sprawling port of Yokohama) is also much more heavily populated (approximately 20 million) than either the New York metropolitan area (15.5 million) or Greater London (10 million...
Amid the minarets and arabesques of the busy capital of Kuala Lumpur (pop. 300,000), a solemn convocation of sultans and state chieftains gathered last week. Their job: to elect the one of their number who for five years will be His Majesty the Paramount Ruler of the Independent State of Malaya (at a salary of $60,000 a year plus perquisites) when the new Commonwealth nation comes into being at the end of this month...
...little town of Ellenville, N.Y. (pop. 5,000) gulped when Banker William Rose, a self-proclaimed Robin Hood, was charged with allowing overdrafts of $1,200,000 (TIME, Dec. 24), and his Home National Bank was closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Last week Ellenville gulped again as the FDIC sifted through the remains of Home National (capital: $807,000). To settle Rose's gift-loan of $958,000 to the nearby Anjopa Paper Co., the FDIC agreed on a $396,000 installment-plan repayment. FDIC had no other choice; Anjopa's total worth is only...
...rear of the audience, leaps on stage and fires a rifle. From then on to the end we are swept up in the production's riotously breathless pace. Other characters race down the aisle, in and out of the wings, up and down stairs, and along the balcony. People pop in and out of doors, pistols fire, and all that's missing is "Hiyo, Silver...