Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Britain announced plans for a new steppingstone in the Indian Ocean: the island of Gan in the Maldives, a group of coral islands (pop. 93,000) some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon whose sultans have basked under the protection of the British navy since 1795. The rent (amount undisclosed) Britain has agreed to pay for Gan should provide a long-needed shot in the arm to the all but dormant Maldivian economy (now mainly dependent on shipments of fish to Ceylon). As for Britain's chances of hanging on to her new base-"It is difficult," said...
...letter writers share another trait: they are reviewing the events of the year and choosing their candidates for TIME'S Man of the Year. One of these this year was Finbarr M. Slattery, who is known as "the divil to argue" in his native village, Asdee (pop. 250) in County Kerry, where the Shannon meets...
...born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (pop. then: 9,000), grandson of a Civil War veteran and son of a respected lawyer and Democratic bigwig. At the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, he was awarded so many demerits for drinking, practical joking and all-round roistering that he was expelled, was reinstated only on his father's plea and on probation. This shocked him into hard work and he finally graduated-far, far down the list-in 1921. After an assignment in 1924 to the Navy's first aircraft carrier Langley, he turned to naval aviation. Not long...
...such slogans as, "End U.S. rule of the saber," "Restoration of Okinawa to Japan the motherland," "Yankee go home." Last week, despite the best efforts of U.S. authorities, Senaga got himself elected to Okinawa's top elective office-mayor of Naha, the island's biggest city (pop. 170,000). With the two other candidates splitting the pro-U.S. vote, he won with only 40% of the votes...
...City Dreams. Across the land the prosperous face of the U.S. took on a new look as businessmen marched into rural areas where industry had never set foot before, transforming crossroads towns into fast-growing cities. For years the sleepy little town of Twinsburg (pop. 1,250), Ohio, huddled on a road between Akron and Cleveland, was nothing more than a village square, a bank, a cluster of stores. This year Chrysler Corp. moved in with an $85 million body plant and jobs for 3,500. Now Twinsburg has big-city dreams. The town fathers are planning...