Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going like a bullet; nothing could stop it." To celebrate, the Atlas contractor, Convair, launched a bubbly champagne party at the nearby Starlite Motel, and the jubilant missilemen hoisted Operations Manager B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb (TIME, Dec. 30) on their shoulders and carried him around the room...
...over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the first press conference of his premiership. Looking relaxed and chipper, and sporting a glistening gold peace-dove emblem in his lapel, the Soviet boss told 250 reporters in the wood-paneled oval room of the Kremlin's Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government had just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other...
...Labor Secretary, López Mateos lived quietly in a two-story, eight-room house on the outskirts of the capital's fancy suburb-on-a-lava-field, Pedregal. The house, made of glass and lava stone, is furnished with nude marble statuettes, alabaster floor lamps, overstuffed furniture in shades of purple and rose. The López Mateos' only child, Evita, 16, studied at Torrington Park, an English school for middle-class girls, in Arundel, West Sussex, learned flawless English (her father, fluent in Spanish and French, can read English but does not speak...
...father Carl. One revelation: Liberty Lover Carl often proved less than democratic about the egalitarian reading habits of his kiddies. "I remember," wrote Helga, "an odd group of books called Bongo, the Jungle Boy. This is etched on my brain because one evening my father stopped in at my room to say goodnight as he was going to his attic quarters. Bongo sailed across the room flapping while a thundering voice reverberated, 'Life's too short for this damned tripe...
...invited to appear on a BBC-TV interview, he went on camera paralyzed to the point of petrification. When the BBC blamed the hot weather, Behan roared to questioning reporters: "I was drunk." Explained his wife of 3½ years, Painter Beatrice Salkeld: "They shut him up in a room before the broadcast, but were stupid enough to leave a bottle of whisky in the room...