Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptians agreed to pay $87 million compensation for 1) expropriated British-owned rural property, and 2) "damage" to sequestrated urban properties now to be returned to their owners. Afterward, going over the papers its negotiators had initialed, the Treasury in London "noticed that some figures didn't seem to be in the right column." Among other things, Smouha City was classified as farm land...
...World indoor track and field records took a wholesale battering at the National A.A.U. championships in New York City's Madison Square Garden. Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, whose capabilities seem limitless, cleared 7 ft. 1¼ in.-the highest jump in history, indoors or out. Ron Delany, of Villanova and Ireland, who runs to win and no more, got such pressure from a topflight field that he lowered his own indoor mark for the mile to 4:02.5. Air Force Lieut. Bill Bellinger, world indoor record holder at two miles, set a new three-mile...
...concerns. Once he saw a nature movie about a herd of brown deer with white markings in whose midst appeared a mutation-a white deer with brown markings. "You see," purred the narrator, "he's playing right along with the other deer and they don't even seem to notice the difference." Said Belafonte with a laugh loud enough for the whole theater to hear: "Boy, they're well integrated." In his playful moods, Belafonte is also fond of fabricating stories about himself and his family. For a time he informed strangers that his present wife...
Even the drawing in Sleeping Beauty is crude: a compromise between sentimental, crayon-book childishness and the sort of cute, commercial cubism that tries to seem daring but is really just square. The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon. The plot often seems to owe less to the tradition of the fairy tale than to the formula of the monster movie. In the final reel it is not a mere old-fashioned witch the hero has to kill, but the very latest model of The Thing From...
...patent. British Author Gabriel Fielding, himself a Catholic convert, has already proved (In the Time of Greenbloom; TIME, June 10, 1957) that he is one of the most skillful novelists writing in English. He is also a successful physician who knows what few physicians and equally few novelists seem to recognize: that each man's nature is a separate case, that human nature can itself be the hardest ailment to cure...