Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into illicit control of "the gold of Dongo"-the $90 million treasure that Mussolini was carrying at the time of his capture and killing by partisans in April 1945 (TIME, June 24). Last week, with about 30 more witnesses to be heard from, one of the seven blue-ribbon jurors. 62-year-old Silvio Aldrighetti, a rich Padua ironmonger who of late weeks had been ailing, walked into the study of his elegant country home and shot himself through the right temple...
...wonder world of electronics, much of the magic is performed by a simple looking device-a plastic ribbon covered with particles of iron oxide. Its name: magnetic tape. On its surface a fantastic amount of sights, sounds and statistical data can be electromagnetically recorded. The tape can be played over and over again without wearing out, can be erased and used again for new recordings. Tape recorders are challenging phonographs for hi-fi music; they fly in jet planes and guided missiles to record test data; in the first earth satellite, a tape recorder will read dozens of instruments...
Beneath statues of the Duke of Wellington, William Pitt the Younger and of himself, 82-year-old Sir Winston Churchill, wearing white tie and tails, the blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest, looked and sounded the proud and unyielding Englishman as he spoke out last week in London's 500-year-old Guildhall. His audience was 550 American and British lawyers and their wives, his theme was that "justice knows no frontiers," and his warning was that "justice is not being achieved" in the U.N. Assembly...
...years Professor Spruce has been celebrating the flora and fauna of Texas in imaginative oils laid on with a realistic brush. Now the University of Texas is publishing an annual full-color portfolio of the works of artists portraying the Southwest. Its first choice, picked by a blue-ribbon committee of leading Texas art patrons advised by the state's most prominent art-museum directors: stocky, sobersided Everett Spruce...
Nothing of the sort happens, and Elaine finally leads her Egyptian officer back to London at the end of her typewriter ribbon. Yehia is happy with his revolution (it may be a dictatorship, he concedes, but it is a "dictatorship by Egyptians") and becomes military attaché in London, where he and Elaine melt into a clinch as the organ of a nonconformist chapel thunders through the wall of her flat...