Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insufferably arrogant, and too clever by far. When Jawaharlal Nehru decided to make him a Minister without Portfolio, some of India's top politicians fought a bitter rearguard action against the appointment. When Menon voted against a U.N. resolution calling for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, India rang with demands for his expulsion from public life. But last week, when Krishna Menon was sworn in as India's Minister of Defense-a job previously held by Nehru himself-not a voice was raised against...
...cries of professed astonishment and dismay rang through Europe. There was talk of "British desertion," and Britain's NATO representative reported that NATO officials were "shocked." A typical French reaction came from the left-wing Franc-Tireur: "England has ceased to be a power. She is becoming an island once more. She is tiptoeing out of a political system built in Europe around NATO." Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury called reliance on atomic arms a "facile policy," and not one for France, which prefers to think there will always be conventional wars. (European nations worried by British troop withdrawals from...
...awards managed to work up some tension. In Paris, where she is appearing in the French version of the play Tea and Sympathy, Expatriate Ingrid Bergman, up for best actress for her performance in Anastasia, hustled home after the last curtain, downed sedatives, and slept soundly until her phone rang at 6 a.m. with the news of her second Oscar. (Her first: in 1944, for the role of Mrs. Anton in Gaslight.) His shaved head glistening like a polished cue ball, Yul Brynner won the best actor award for his autocratic king in Rodgers and Hammerstein's successful cinemusical...
Last week the San Andreas Fault system shrugged again. A soundless, polite waver wiggled skyscrapers, floors and desks, then awesomely heaved harder, and adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway...
...after a hard week's work on a story about an eruption of shootings and gangster violence in Montreal's east-end tenderloin district; the Canadian edition of TIME carrying Riggan's story had appeared on the newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that he had, one of the men whipped out a knife and held it to the newsman's stomach while...