Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Touré, threatened with the loss of all his economic ties with France, flew off to Ghana. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was at the Accra airport with bands, a 21-gun salute, and a cheering crowd bearing placards saying, WELCOME LABORMAN . . . LIBERATOR OF GUINEA! Toure had made no secret of the fact that he wanted intimate ties with Ghana. But just how close those ties were to be came as a real surprise...
...Johnson: "I came to listen and learn as a friend, and I have done both." He reported that he had invited the President-elect to visit his LBJ ranch in Texas, and that Lopez Mateos had accepted, although the date was left open. What else they discussed was their secret-but they planned to meet several more times before López Mateos headed back to Mexico City to prepare for his Dec. 1 inauguration...
...than ever, reported the Nielsen rating service. Latest western reading: four of the top five nighttime shows, eleven of the top 20. The roundup: Gunsmoke (37-7), Wagon Train (32.4), Danny Thomas (32.1), Have Gun, Will Travel (30.8), Wells Fargo (30.2), Desilu Playhouse (30.1), I've Got a Secret (29.5), Wyatt Earp (29.2), Ann Sothern Show (28.7), Cheyenne (28.2), Peter Gunn (27.8), Real McCoys (27.5), Rifleman (27.5), The Price Is Right (27.4), Want-ed-Dead or Alive (27.3), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (27.1), Father Knows Best (27.0), General Electric Theatre (26.6), Texan (26.4), Maverick...
CAPITAL AIRLINES, strikebound for five weeks, got its first payment from mutual aid plan put into effect by six domestic carriers (TIME, Nov. 10, 1958). Size of payment covering Oct. 20-31 is secret, but insiders...
Tommy O'Driscoll, the fictional hero of The Prospects Are Pleasing, is a rachitic young Dublin clerk who dreams of being "the Anointed, the Victim, and, at the same time, the Hero" in the "march for a free Ireland." Dispatched to London on a secret mission to recover a canvas of the late Spanish painter, Afrodisio Lafuente y Chaos, that the Dublin press has loudly and incorrectly trumpeted as Ireland's own, Tommy promptly funks it and is rescued by a Wodehousian young Englishman named Felix Horniman. Chiefly because Tommy reminds him of a dyspeptic monkey he once...