Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge, semicircular conference room in the U.S. Capitol, seven Senators and seven Representatives last week sat down to what may be the most important job of their legislative lives: hammering out a labor reform bill. Between the hard-fisted Landrum-Griffin bill passed by the House (TIME, Aug. 24) and the milder Kennedy-Ervin bill approved by the Senate, there was ample room for compromise, though the rigid-and almost equally divided-positions of the conferees typified a general bitterness rarely before equaled on Capitol Hill...
...Hague Municipal Museum last week sat two Olmec ambassadors, lifesize, in clay. The largest Olmec ceramics yet found, they had been apparently smuggled out of Mexico and later bought by Los Angeles' Oscar Mayer, a freewheeling dealer in antiquities. Mayer insured the pieces for $75,000; historically they are priceless-two splendid clues in a search back through the dark abyss of time. The sculptures have already caused great excitement in Paris, where Andre Malraux among others identified them as definitely "Olmequisant." Next week they will move on to Berlin's Akademie der Künste...
...Stockholm a much more impressive haul from China sat in a customs shed. It was a treasure hoard picked up in Peking by Nils Nessim, 43, a Swedish carpet dealer and importer. On a previous trip to Red China last year he had bought only modern carpets, ivory and porcelain. This time, taken down winding Peking streets to out-of-the-way antique shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized...
Decoy. In Las Villas, Morgan urged the Dominicans on with a radio transmitter they had given him. "Our troops are advancing," he said, "but we cannot do it all. Send the Dominican legion!" One night, while Castro sat in the dark under a nearby mango tree to watch, a Dominican C46 put down at a Las Villas strip. As his men yelled "Death to Castro!" Morgan conferred at length with a man in priest's garb and five civilians. Morgan's men unloaded 13 bazookas and 40 cases of ammunition from the plane...
...Sat., Aug. 22 Saturday Night Pro Football...