Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Streamlined as they were, the 58 aircraft gathered outside the little Burgundy village of Saint-Yan (pop. 859) seemed remnants of an earlier era-a time when flying was still for the birds or for men who wished to emulate them. No stub-winged jets waited to scream aloft, riding the thrust of a man-made thunderclap. These were sleek sailplanes, slim-winged, frail, and built to soar on the least suspicion of a breeze. Their pilots had come from 25 countries for the fifth postwar international gliding championships...
...struggle for the good will of Southeast Asia, the sprawling, rich kingdom of Thailand (pop. 20.3 million) is a test case in diplomatic method. Thailand has long been friendly to the United States and has benefited from generous U.S. economic and military aid. But in recent months Thailand, like many another Asian country, has been drifting toward the left...
...Other pop records...
Hello, Baby (Fred Astaire; Verve). A song that slips in amidst the hurly-burly of modern pop songs about as unexpectedly as a soft-shoe dance in a rock 'n' roll show−and brings as much relief. Astaire, who helped write the relaxed lyrics, sings them with nice feeling, as always...
...Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three." With this beginning, Billie Holiday, a singer who broke the hearts of a generation of jazz lovers, sets out to reveal what lies behind the blues−or at least her blues. Before she is through, she has lined out some bitter truths about being a Negro in the U.S. and some that are not too sweet about being a narcotics addict...