Word: river
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...news, like a great river, gathers its unity and strength and direction from the tributaries of seemingly separate events. It is TIME'S weekly purpose not only to follow those tributaries from their sources in the past but to show and give them meaning at their confluence in contemporary history...
Walks by the River. Already the huge importance of whatever Khrushchev wants is apparent from the propaganda lengths he has gone to in order to make his trip to the U.S. a success. On trip's eve the U.S.S.R. hit the moon with a historic cosmic-rocket shot even though the moon would have been easier to hit. on other dates. Khrushchev violated every hallowed canon of Communist solidarity when he intervened between Communist China and India to calm down the Himalayan border crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), thereby advertising to the world that Communism's monolith...
...lower Broadway, incidentally passing over the site where marooned Dutch sailors spent the winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President Eisenhower in Washington, but would spend much of her time in the Hudson River Valley, helping to commemorate the 350th anniversary of its exploration by the Dutch captain of The Half Moon...
Another attraction leading student minds from Quincy's strait-laced code of ethics were the Boston pubs and easyhouses. The Charles River toll bridge provided easy access to the city, and the hope that students could be confined to College grounds rapidly evaporated. Why be a gentleman all the time, students in the 1830's must have asked themselves, with Boston merriment only a bridge away...
Most newsworthy was the inaugural season of the MeBAC Theatre across the Charles River in Brighton. The structure is the first State-constructed theatre in the country and the first professional theatre to be built in the Boston area since 1925. The actual erecting began on May 7. Bad weather and a series of mishaps threatened to make the July 9 opening impossible. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers and stake-drivers were still working. But at 8 o'clock Governor Furcolo was able to officiate at the impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony, backed by the firing of cannon...