Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceilinged chamber, small and square, in the basement of the U.N. Headquarters in Manhattan, representatives of the Big Powers last week put to its first testing the euphoric spirit of Geneva. In grey, upholstered chairs behind their microphones sat the delegates to the U.N. Subcommittee on disarmament: the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Harold Stassen, Britain's Anthony Nutting, France's Jules Moch, Canada's Paul Martin and the Soviet Union's Arkady A. Sobolev. Before them on the U-shaped table lay the problem that had teased and baffled the subcommittee through...
SOME of us who have been around TIME for a good while sat in the control room of an American Broadcasting Co. radio studio recently, waiting to hear a familiar voice. When it came out of the control-room loudspeaker, the voice was still as sonorous and commanding as ever. It immediately recalled memories and stories of early TIME ventures into radio: the 1924 show, called Pop Question, conducted by the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; NewsCasts in 1928 and NewsActing in 1929, both started by TIME'S President Roy Larsen, then TIME'S circulation manager...
Envoys & Farmers. Opulent Oriental rugs were spread out on the grass, and dazzling turquoise gadis (bolsters) were placed on the rugs. Reclining on the rugs and gadis, His Excellency Syed Amjad Ali, the Pakistani ambassador, sat in cross-legged splendor. He was dressed in gaudy sport clothes and a dark ten-gallon hat. A red and green silk beach umbrella shaded the ambassador from the direct touch of the cruel sun, and a swarm of sari-clad women from his household kept him and his guests plentifully supplied with cooling drinks...
...determination to catch the outlaw, Dixit set a specially trained company of Gurkha police combing the jungle for his quarry. As an added precaution, he himself climbed to a mountain shrine in Amarnath to ask help of the god Siva. One day last week, as Man Singh sat resting under a banyan tree near the village of Kakekapura, Siva answered the prayer. A telephone rang in the New Delhi residence of Jawaharlal Nehru, and over it a jubilant voice crowed to India's Prime Minister: "Panditji, this is Home Minister Dixit. We have just killed Man Singh...
Texaco Star Theater (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC). With Jimmy Durante...