Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Methodist Church and Easter Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church, inspected his Aberdeen Angus, worked over speeches scheduled this week before the NATO ministers in Washington and a Gettysburg College convocation. This week, the holiday over, he planned to return to the White House after the annual Easter-egg roll. There, he would dig in to face a returning Congress and the crises which have become almost part of an average day's work...
...Under 21, Plain Talk for Women Under 21), fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives of Henry VIII to a party, how many guests would she have? (Answer: Nine-six wives and three sons: Cain, Abel, Seth...
While Romeo and Juliet made shy love in the corner, a file of bare-chested men in pajama pants and motorcycling helmets marched on the stage to the martial roll of drums. Guns began to chatter, and Romeo toppled, a bullet in his heart. Orpheus appeared in slacks and V-necked shirt, turned to the audience with a bewildered...
...answered an ad in London's Daily Mirror that invited young musicians to "Just Dial FAME." FAME's mortal form, it turned out, is the chunky person of Paul Lincoln, an ex-wrestler and Soho coffee-bar proprietor who runs a stable of rock-'n'-roll yodelers, is the muse behind hugely successful Singer Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957). Lincoln heard tapes of Kris singing and playing folk songs he had written himself, quickly signed up the young scholar. Sample of Kris's pleasant, blues-tinged lyrics (his songs neither rock nor roll), suggested...
...delay action. Some are appointed to build up support for a course of action already agreed on. But when Dwight Eisenhower put onetime Under Secretary of the Army William H. Draper Jr. in charge of a committee last November to survey the vast U.S. foreign-aid program, the roll call of blue-ribbon committee members * made it clear that the President wanted hard answers. Last week in the Draper committee's preliminary report, he got three that nobody quite expected. Said the committee...