Word: room
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first wave from Washington, a Pentagon platoon led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep defense spending at about $41 billion (TIME...
...England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch in more than 100 years,* the old pram in which Queen Elizabeth herself was wheeled was dug out of the palace lumber room, tastefully refurbished in anticipation of its new royal occupant...
...Princess Anne has been redecorated in buttercup yellow and white frilled nylon-safe colors for either sex. A sunny nursery suite commanding the palace's inner courtyard sports a fresh coat of off-white paint and new chintz curtains. Technicians are ready to fit out a complete delivery room in one wing if, as anticipated, the 33-year-old Queen decides to have the baby in Buckingham Palace. And the daughter of a Merseyside policeman, Mabel Anderson, taken on as an assistant nanny at Charles' birth because she was the "only applicant not shivering with nerves," has already...
...caught the King's wife, Queen Damali, and the King's brother, Prince Juko, in the shrubbery of the palace grounds. Worst of all, Prince Juko had been clad only in underpants. The King sternly announced that Queen Damali was to be confined incommunicado to her room for the present, and would later be exiled to the lonely Sese Islands, 30 miles offshore in Lake Victoria. The assembled advisers were not terribly impressed by the King's evidence, since they-and all Buganda-were well aware that the King wants to divorce Queen Damali so that...
...year-old housewife in the emergency room of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse was in deep shock from massive internal bleeding. The problem: to find its source as fast as possible. Italian-born Dr. Goffredo G. Gensini buttonholed a visitor, Radiologist Charles Dotter from the University of Oregon. Dr. Dotter sterilized the G string of a guitar, punctured the main artery in the woman's thigh. then-watching the steel's progress under the fluoroscope-worked it up into the aorta, the body's main artery. When it was close to the heart, he slipped...