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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keep Out. As the days wore on, the rumor spread that the princess herself had ordered the blackout in retaliation for the mob scene at the airport ("And that is not far from the truth," admitted an embassy official in private). The dismal climax came when she paid her call on the Federation of British Industries' fair-the purpose of her trip in the first place. Not only were the Portuguese barred and all entrances locked (though the British exhibitors were allowed in), but Margaret was followed about by six burly, khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Meg, Go Home | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...Queen's picture was the most provocative thing Lee's forces did last week-as if determined to show how untrue were all those stories abroad that the Communists had now taken control of Britain's great Far East naval base. British officials on the scene, less alarmed, have convinced themselves that Lee's bark is worse than his bite. They agree that his bark is pretty ferocious, but they point to some paradoxes in his makeup. At 36, Prime Minister Lee is a Cambridge-trained barrister steeped in British ways of thought-as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: The Takeover | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...labyrinthine difficulty and orchestration of such transparent delicacy that it sometimes seemed like chamber music. Frequently the chorus was used unaccompanied as a tautly dramatic background to the soloists' soaring vocal lines, and in some sequences Blomdahl abandoned the orchestra altogether in favor of taped electronic effects. One scene unfolds against a Jabberwockian mixture that includes the speaking voices of Eisenhower. Khrushchev, Hitler, Mussolini and the defendants at the Nürnberg trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Space | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Junior year was the most eventful and exciting year of all, both on the national and local scene. The fall started off with President Lowell's house under police protection after Judge Thayer's home was bombed (Lowell had headed a review commission for the Sacco-Vanzetti case.) The year was dominated by Lowell, first with his retirement, and later by the creation of the Society of Fellows from his anonymous gift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '34: First To Live in Houses Under Lowell's Plan | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

Elsewhere on the spiritual and cultural scene, T.S. Eliot delivered the Norton lectures, and plans were made for a new set of Russian bells for the Lowell House tower. The Lampoon, tottering on the financial brink, opened up a cafe, and the next year was reported (in the CRIMSON) to have been "bought out" by the more solvent, although nearly ad-less newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '34: First To Live in Houses Under Lowell's Plan | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

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