Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson--which no longer likes the sobriquet "facility"--was an oasis of reason and calmness last week. Where conversation at Commons and in the clubs hinged on "bids," "sections" and "preferentials," Lodge members could talk of anything from world affairs to classes and even--and this is a crime in club circles--grades. One Lodge member contends that this difference exists all year round; in the clubs, he says, no-one discusses anything but weekends, dates and dances; at the Lodge, it is possible to discuss literature, philosophy and politics...
...horrors" going on in Cuba is being heard from one end to the other of the country. This outcry would have more validity if a similar outcry had reverberated for the past six years when the horrible torturing of people by the "government" of the unspeakable Batista, for no reason even rationalized, except to keep a dictator in power, was the order...
...pool in the Dominican Republic, reminiscing about the good old days. Instead, there was trouble in Trujillo's paradise. Peron was too scornful to speak to Batista; Batista was too scared to talk to Peron; aging (67) Dictator Trujillo obviously wished that both of them would go away. Reason: Cuba's bearded rebel leader, Fidel Castro, who toppled Batista, has now turned his attention to the Caribbean's last dictatorship-Trujillo's Dominican Republic...
...Cuban peso, on a par with the dollar for 44 years, turned soft; the foreign-money markets knocked it down to 75? or worse. Reason: nobody knew how many fresh green millions Dictator Fulgencio Batista and his cronies had lugged away. Castro's government ordered all $500 and $1,000 bills turned in, decreed that visitors to Cuba could bring in no more than 50 pesos. Canadian Gold Broker John Rogers (TIME, Dec. 15) reported that a Miami lawyer, acting for a pro-Batista exile, was trying to convert 500,000 pesos into bullion...
...standin. But when the Du Pont Show of the Month put What Every Woman Knows on the air last week, she gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 35, was a trim, burr-voiced delight...