Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger...
...first and only time, Mae married. She told the lucky man, a vaudevillian named Frank Wallace, that she was not in love. "It's just this physical thing," explained Mae. "You don't move my finer instincts." Domestic life proved a bore, and Mae soon sent her husband off on a solo tour...
Last week, as college football began across the nation, Coach Graham sent his lightweight Coast Guard team against the hard-nosed recruits of Geneva College (enrollment: 900) in Beaver Falls, Pa. It was no fun-especially for Otto Graham. Hands jammed deep into his pockets, chomping gum furiously, he writhed on the sidelines as Geneva toyed with his cadets. He bellowed frantic warnings ("Pass! It's a pass!"), once barked at officials ("Watch those off sides...
...finals Coe started fast, drilling birdies on the first three holes, led two up after the morning round of 18 holes. But in the afternoon Coe began to wilt. He sent seven of nine tee shots into the rough, set six geese to frantic squawking by nearly dropping a ball into their pond...
...Despite the strike's worsening effects, chances for a settlement last week seemed more remote than ever. The steelworkers accepted, but the steel companies turned down, an offer by President Eisenhower to appoint a non-Government fact-finding committee. To aid workers, the U.A.W. sent $1,000,000, and at the biennial A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in San Francisco the federation urged its 13 million members to give an hour's pay each month to aid the striking steelworkers. If all workers contributed, the strike fund would be an estimated $1,000,000 a day, largest in labor history...