Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incongruously decked out in Russian-style fur hats, rented from London's famed provider of borrowed finery, Moss Bros. As the visitors emerged into the unseasonable warmth (41°), a Soviet honor guard sprang to attention, bayonets flashing in the sunlight, and a military band broke into God Save the Queen. Beaming broadly, Nikita Khrushchev doffed his own beaver hat and told Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We welcome you to our native land. This good weather puts us in a good mood...
...breath is both dried and filtered; the exhaled air escapes backward from the mask's wings, is almost germfree. The new mask, built to stand away from the skin, is cooler than the close-fitting, clammy gauze. And although the plastic part costs $1.50, it should save hospitals money in the long run because it can be sterilized and reused for years. The filter inserts cost only 1?, as against 18? for the throwaway gauze masks...
...composed of people from show business. He hopes that his son will grow up in the same world. "He will have to have some of the experiences I had as a Negro or that his mother had as a Jew," he says. "I don't necessarily want to save him from it." Harry devotes some time to Negro affairs (the N.A.A.C.P., the Wiltwyck School for Boys, the Rev. Martin Luther King's Montgomery Improvement Association), gives 20% of his income to his partly tax-exempt Belafonte Foundation of Music and Arts, designed to "get young people with talent...
...contribution with dramatic jumps, a kind of rhythmical chain-gang walk, and a Charleston-like dance step. Scenes ranged from flirtatious rambles in the market place to formally styled initiation ceremonies. One episode, simply enacting the death of a man and a witch doctor's earnest attempts to save him, conveyed the feeling of real tragedy, accompanied by chanting as insistent and haunting as Ravel's Bolero...
...fortune from the local crime syndicate, doctors in Madrid have told him that he has cancer, and he is nagged by the conviction that as a bad Catholic he has small chance of dying in a state of grace. Dr. Chance seems to him the man who might save him. Against a background of native political unrest, Chance becomes part of Macgrady's crowd. He goes to dope parties in the native quarter, drinks only a little less than Macgrady, and has the bad luck to fall in love with his patient's beautiful young wife Anna...