Word: roomed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suffering from shock and bruised ribs, the Premier was moved from Mrs. Bailey's cottage to a private room on the third floor of London Clinic. It was there that Adnan Menderes, in pajamas and dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since...
Once the Greeks and the Turks reached their offstage agreement in a Swiss hotel (TIME, Feb. 23), the other parties to the dispute found little room for maneuver. The British demanded-and got-sovereignty and access rights to their military bases on the island as the jump-off point for British operations in the Middle East. But by the terms of the settlement the British were forced to give up another shred of empire without much say about how it was done...
That afternoon, the delegates approved the "agreed foundation for the final settlement of the problem of Cyprus" (Makarios had wanted to call it only "a basis"). After the three Prime Ministers signed the agreement in Menderes' hospital room, Harold Macmillan went before the House of Commons to pronounce it a "victory for reason and cooperation ... a victory...
Full Solarium. In Puerto Rico, two new luxury hotels raised the island's room total to 2,300. But with the U.S. over its recession jitters and in a vacation mood, the total was not enough. The Caribe Hilton rented out its solarium, conference room and doctor's office. No-vacancy signs were up in the Virgin Islands, now linked to Puerto Rico by a 40-passenger hydrofoil speedboat. Barbados, easternmost of the Windward chain, bustled; Trinidad impatiently awaited the completion of a $9,500,000 Hilton hotel...
...Castro, the Prime Minister, was little different from Fidel Castro, the talkative, disorganized rebel. He moved out of the confusion of his Havana Hilton suite and into the confusion of a stucco chalet named High Ranch, on a hill east of Havana. Typical scene one noon in the living room: a woman travel writer asleep on a couch, cigar butts on the floor, a disconnected chandelier. Outside on the porch a cassocked priest sat reading the funny papers...