Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven months ago, in the heady days after they had killed King Feisal and seized power in Baghdad, Major General Karim Kassem and Colonel Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref were "brothers in revolt" who slept on the floor of the same office in the Defense Ministry Building. Last week after a sort of show trial before a military court, Colonel Aref was sentenced to death for trying to kill his chief, Premier Kassem...
...Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted the July revolt, testified in Aref's behalf...
...economic freedom and cease being ruled by U.S. ambassadors who have been running our country for 50 years." He went on record as favoring capital punishment throughout "the revolutionary period"-as firing squads cut down 24 more "war criminals" (13 in one day) to bring the post-revolt total...
Ceramics, one of mankind's first arts, is having a renaissance after a century-long decline. Begun when a handful of ceramists retreated to their studios in self-conscious revolt against the standardization of machine-tooled objects, the renaissance is now in full swing from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to London's Chelsea, with thousands of potters pumping their wheels and smudging their smocks as they "throw" the wet spinning clay. One of the most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows...
...Rebel Fidel Castro's mountain-locked resistance, Cuba got too little attention from the daily press. Scant word of Batista atrocities-of the Cubans who died at the hands of his army and his police-filtered past his porous censorship. The strength of the Castro position, after the revolt lapsed into a tropical stalemate, was misjudged...