Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just walk through that door to the rear of the stage and wait for directions," said the round man at the side entrance of the Opera House as he checked our identification. Mr. Nordus, with a spray of flags across the lapel of his tails that made him look like a distinguished veteran of the Pacific campaign rather than the conductor of the Ballet Orchestra, stepped aside as we filed in. He was in the process of greeting Boston friends or relatives in a flurry of Danish, ending up with "I'll see you later...
...approximately the same hour, 75 miles to the northwest in the mushrooming city of Riverside (pop. 72,000), a short, coffee-skinned man with blue-black hair and an easy smile finished a hefty breakfast, stepped into his air-conditioned 1950 Buick and set off on a long round of meetings, conferences and calls aimed at Jackie Cochran's undoing. He was Dalip Singh Saund, 57, an India-born Sikh who came to the U.S. as a student and stayed on to become a citizen, a successful businessman, a California district judge and Jackie Cochran's Democratic opponent...
...trip has been dogged by mishaps, bungles, delays and breakdowns, from the plane's mimeograph machine to the press bus, which left the newsmen on an Oregon roadside thumbing rides to the Portland airport. One unscheduled dash in Michigan sent the party on a breakneck 82-mile round-trip drive to the Mackinac Straits Bridge, which Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams insisted on showing to Kefauver for the benefit of photographers. A padlock had to be broken before the candidate could get on the structure after nightfall-to greet a crowd of five workmen and one woman...
Foam Rubber. On the festive opening night (Danish national anthem, speeches, cheers) the featured work was La Sylphide, choreographed by famed August Bournonville in 1836 and passed down virtually unchanged from lip to toe. It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks...
...Unruffled despite being four down in he final round of the U.S. women's amateur golf championship at Indianapolis, Canada's tiny (5 ft. 1 in., 115 lbs.) Marene Stewart, 22, plugged away at her steady, par-nudging game. Ahead, husky JoAnne Gunderson, 17, national junior champion, came all unstrung with tournament jitters. Marlene-onetime British amateur women's champion (1953), four-time winner of the Canadian open (1951, '54, '55, '56) and current U.S. intercollegiate titleholder-passed her strawberry-blonde competitor on the 35th hole, won 2 and 1, became the first Canadian...