Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...length to impress a foreign country with an embassy. As architect, it hired Edward Stone (TIME Cover, March 31 ), designer of the American Pavilion at the Brussels Fair. The building was dubbed the Taj Maria* for Stone's wife ("Mr. Stone is the finest architect in the world," says she), and the embassy does capture much of the magnificence of an ancient Indian taj. As in the temples and palaces of old, most of the work was done by hand, each finished piece transported by Indian artisans from makeshift workshops on the grounds. Stone himself was awe-struck...
...self-sustaining mission in Medellin, Colombia. Returning to the U.S.. he started organizing an interdenominational mission of "Colaborers." He heard about jungled Parana State, visited it, decided it was a good site for a beginning. "I thought we could set up a little community of, say, ten American families with tractors and trucks to support the mission with coffee and crops." he said. Some 200 U.S. families heartily agreed, bought tracts at $30 an acre for uncleared land in Paraná. Last August the first five Colaborer families, including the Presbyterian Suttons, got to work...
...cigarettes specially made-wrapped in ordinary cigarette-tobacco leaf. Then they painted the collected tars on the shaved backs of mice, and counted the resulting cancers. While a mouse's back is admittedly not the same as the inside of a man's lung, histologists (tissue specialists) say that it is of essentially the same structure and shows similar reactions...
...Money." Born and brought up in Chicago, Shelley, 32, says that even in his early days he played to the crowd. "As I grew older, I became more proficient at being a showoff. I was a pretty good loudmouth. I was the guy at parties. You know-that clod who determines the mood of the gathering. My whole act is confession. Every word I say, I'm admitting something...
Lunik's great, multistage launching rocket, which probably weighed 250 tons or more, roared up from some part of the Soviet Union on Friday. When the Russians made their first announcement, they could already say with confidence that the final stage had attained escape velocity. On Saturday they could announce that at 9:59 p.m. E.S.T. Lunik had passed the moon and plunged on into outer space on an orbit around the sun. At week's end it was 318,000 miles from the earth and still going strong...