Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Turkish rule, Constantinople's famed Christian shrines, like the great basilica of Saint Sophia, were restored and refurbished to the glory of Allah. Slim minarets rose skyward alongside rounded Byzantine domes. New architectural jewels, like the Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, sprang up to rival the old, and the hiving humanity drawn by commerce to this natural crossroads of land and sea began to fill every available crevice with the insignificant architecture of its daily life...
...Franklin George, 79, patriarchal "Senator's Senator," recent compelling voice for American bipartisan foreign policy. Democratic Senator from Georgia from 1922 to 1956, when President Eisenhower made him U.S. Ambassador to NATO; of a heart ailment; in home-town Vienna, Ga. Born on a poor Georgia farm, George rose from a Georgia lawyer to associate justice on the State Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate, George began serving (1926) on the tax-writing Finance Committee, soon was recognized as the Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump...
...FARM EXPORTS jumped 35% to record $4.7 billion in fiscal 1957. Government-subsidized cotton exports hit 7,700,000 bales v. 2,200,000 bales in 1956; wheat shipments rose to 535 million bu. from 340 million bu. Agriculture Department expects foreign sales boom to level off in current fiscal year because of bumper cotton, wheat crops abroad, new import controls in some dollar-short countries...
...little town of Ellenville, N.Y. (pop. 5,000) gulped when Banker William Rose, a self-proclaimed Robin Hood, was charged with allowing overdrafts of $1,200,000 (TIME, Dec. 24), and his Home National Bank was closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Last week Ellenville gulped again as the FDIC sifted through the remains of Home National (capital: $807,000). To settle Rose's gift-loan of $958,000 to the nearby Anjopa Paper Co., the FDIC agreed on a $396,000 installment-plan repayment. FDIC had no other choice; Anjopa's total worth is only...
...step, Richard Waring does a superbly hammy job of the treacherous Don John. When he enters with an about-to-foreclose-the-mortgage leer at the outset and proclaims, "I am a plain-dealing villain," obviously subtlety is wholly out of place. As soon as Beatrice gives him a rose and departs, he makes a big thing of dropping it on the ground and kicking it into a hole...