Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Communist-led mobs burned Nasser in effigy in Baghdad's main street. When the body of Kamil Kazanchi, the Communist lawyer executed in Mosul, was brought to the capital for burial, a funeral procession six miles long wound like a slow river through the city center. Behind the coffin marched Iraqis who short months ago acclaimed the dictator of the Nile their idol, and now shouted: "Death to Nasser! Death to Nasser...
...Labrador; one is now being mined, the other is scheduled to go into production in the 1960s. In Newfoundland and Labrador, surveyors uncovered promising finds of copper, lead and zinc, asbestos, fluorspar, gypsum and uranium. Perhaps even more significant was the exploration of sites on Labrador's Hamilton River that could develop as much hydroelectric power as Grand Coulee and Hoover Dam combined. Next step: to develop a market for this untapped storehouse of kilowatts...
Mark Twain once remarked that he especially enjoyed meeting in books men whom he had "already met on the river." Portrait painting, at its best, gives that kind of enjoyment also. The insights into character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last...
Both the lightweight and heavyweight varsities are stocked with men returning from last year's very successful boats. Last spring's lightweights won a great victory in the Henley Regatta on the Thames River, and the heavy crew was second in the East. Furthermore, last season's freshmen should provide an outstanding group of newcomers...
...bold proposal for the complete redevelopment of the area along the Charles River between Harvard and M.I.T. prepared by students at the Graduate School of Design was described in the current issue of The Architectural Forum...