Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After breakfast and a careful scanning of Formosa papers and others flown in from Hong Kong, Chiang dons his khaki cape, enters his 1949 Cadillac, and makes the 25-minute drive to his office in the Ministry of National Defense in downtown Taipei (pop. 500,000). Soldiers of the security force appear as if by magic along the route, then as magically melt away after he has passed. Past a dark bronze bust of himself on the stair landing, he walks quickly and alone to his third-floor office, where the blue velvet curtains are always drawn for security...
...Nehru's meeting. Most of the bona fide artists, scientists and priests could not speak English, the official conference language, but the delegations from Moscow, Peking and the other Communist capitals were all big coveys of English-speaking propagandists, each ready to spout like shaken-up soda pop the moment the meeting opened. S. K. Patil came in from Bombay with his Congress delegation, took one look at the Red assemblage and withdrew in anger. "It is just another front organization with the Communists running the whole show," he snorted. Questioned about it in Parliament, Prime Minister Nehru sharply...
...Then came the skinny years of the Depression, a wartime stint in Special Services, the postwar years when the act kept getting stranded between guest engagements. Today, signed up to star in MGM's St. Louis Woman and leafing through Broadway offers, Sammy still insists on spots for Pop (55) and Uncle (60-odd) before he will accept...
...Georgia's Macon County (pop. 65% Negro), the contrast between the unchanged Old South and the ever-changing New South is evident everywhere. Negro men and women study at famed Tuskegee Institute not far from where a few practitioners of voodoo still do a lively business. Last week Tuskegee Institute presented a scene that was unknown in the Old South and is still unfamiliar in the new. Four hundred Negro and white doctors from all over the U.S. met on the campus for the 43rd annual meeting of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society.* Ignoring segregation, they lived...
...reeling off a flock of other peoples' stories about Dean, Granny tells of the time he sat on the train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark hog callers won 49 games for the St. Louis Cardinals. Paul was lustily swigging a bottle of pop when the train roared into a long tunnel. "Diz," exclaimed Paul. "You tried any of this stuff?" "Just fixin' to," replied Diz. "Don't!" cautioned Paul. "I did, and I've gone plumb blind...