Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atop the graceful, rose-colored Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking last week stood the two plump, 65-year-old men who rule one-third of the earth's people. As lithe girls danced by to the rhythm of bamboo castanets, and nine huge cloth dragons whirled along in pursuit of 60 golden lions, Red China's Mao Tse-tung beamed in the morning sunlight, bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth...
Rhode Island's grandest old man. Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, rose as usual at 7 a.m., breakfasted on an apple, an orange, wheat flakes, toast, and a glass of milk. Then, in his ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans...
...first contestant was a tall blonde from Oregon with a willowy Grace Kelly look. When she rose from the piano after playing Brahms's Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, the ovation was led by the usherettes at the rear of the hall: only three years ago. Pianist Tana Bawden had been a Carnegie Hall usherette herself. But after the slim, curly-haired young man from St. Louis played Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, the ovation was even louder: at intermission a Carnegie Hall stagehand was making book on him in the lobby...
...play ball, opened the way for two quick Sox runs. But in the fifth, Neal grimly homered into the lower left-field stands for a run-the first time the Dodgers had scored in 14 innings. Suddenly, all seemed right with the Dodgers. An unknown outfielder named Chuck Essegian rose from the bench in the seventh to pinch-hit, swatted another homer. Two batters later, Neal came back to hit a 420-ft. blast into the White Sox bullpen for two more runs. In the eighth, stubby Third Base Coach Tony Cuccinello, the man who had flashed...
...Lazard Freres & Co., New York investment bankers, was elected president of Manufacturers Trust Co., fifth largest bank in New York City, succeeding Eugene S. Hooper, 61, who is retiring. Dallas-born, Stewart graduated from Yale in 1918, joined New York Trust's commercial banking department in 1930, rose to the presidency in 1949, joined Lazard Freres...