Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promise of his African leadership as a possible future counterbalance to rampant nationalism spreading from the Mideast. Beyond such practical prospects, the vigorous, fit-at-48 African leader seemed to give his Nasser-stung hosts a timely, personal reassurance that they have not become the world's abominable rich uncle. He knew all there was to know about the evils of U.S. segregation because, as a young student just in from Africa's Gold Coast, he had waited tables and taught classes to pay his way through seven years (1935-42) at Pennsylvania's Negro Lincoln University...
What Chance? And when his American Volunteer Group was absorbed into the U.S. Army as the Fourteenth Air Force, he continued to punish the Japs in the same old way. The bag was rich -928 planes, 345 probables, 482 damaged, 20,000 Nips strafed dead. But it wasn't the same. This wasn't a fight any more, but a rout...
...philosophers, like Theologian Paul Tillich, as a cult of meaninglessness, proof of "the emptiness of our existence in industrial society." Other critics have an entirely different perspective, see in the abstract-expressionist breakthrough the opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many European contemporaries seem weak and uninventive...
...people of Houston went to the polls last week and used their ballots to cure a strange malady-a perennial case of "one of our hospitals is missing." Beginning ten years ago, to care for the needy ill of the mushrooming oil-rich city and surrounding Harris County, $12 million was set aside. It was plain that Jefferson Davis Hospital was hopelessly inadequate. Overcrowding was rated a major factor this year in the deaths of 18 babies in a staphylococcus epidemic (TIME. March 31). Still no hospital was in sight...
Cessna & Cocktails. In the growing luxury market many a farmer is buying a plane, learning to fly as well as drive. Serving California's rich, irrigated Imperial Valley, an El Centre Cessna dealer reported that he had already sold four single-engined planes to farmers this year at prices from $8,999 to $15,000. A farm organization has put together $1,590 grand tours of Europe for its members this summer. Says the proprietor of Knoust's Party Shop in Phillipsburg. Mo. (pop. 170), noting that farmers are among his best customers for cocktail shakers, blenders...