Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Khrushchev let out the word that the Russians would like to discuss things around a round table. There or elsewhere the West would get its chance to talk "new solutions." Best guideline: stick to the policy that has already been strikingly successful by 1) prodding the Russians once more to reunification of Germany by free elections, with free choice whether or not to join NATO; 2) insisting that they keep their pledged word on the World War II agreements, which set up Berlin under four-power auspices and turned the city into a striking outpost...
...week's end, trooping to the polls for the second, runoff round of National Assembly elections, French voters confirmed this sour tribute to the power of the Gaullist label. Clinging to De Gaulle's coattails, the hastily organized U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) emerged as France's biggest party (26.5% of the vote), won half again as many Assembly seats (187) as any other party. Counting the conservative Independents (120) and the 67 Deputies from Algeria, more than two-thirds the members of the new Assembly were elected on tickets appealing essentially to a right-wing...
...People are funny," says Art Linkletter, and George E. Leighton, superintendent of Eliot House, will gladly agree with him. Leighton and his wife recently won a round trip flight to Sweden on Linkletter's television show...
From last year's relatively strong freshman team comes Bruce Hunter to swim the freestyle sprints, Fred Cooley, Dave Seaton, and Bob Komenda to handle the longer distances, and Bill Shelstede, an all-round man who can swim any one of four different strokes...
...pictures, there is really no plot. On the one side, Tati lines up the protagonists of the gadget: a manufacturer of plastics, whose pride and joy is the cubistic chateau in which he spatially participates with a severely functional, ever-scrubbing wife, a discontented son who is obviously a round peg in a square hole, and a free-form dachshund. On the other side, Tati ranges the proponents of the casual life: Hulot himself, an awesomely inefficient employee of the department of sanitation, a big fat slob who sells vegetables from the back of a prehistoric delivery truck, a sneaky...