Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven-man commission appointed to find a candidate and a program to lead the Social Democrats to victory in 1961, party moderates won all the places. Conspicuously left off was Deputy Party Chairman Herbert Wehner, a onetime Communist agitator who was the man most responsible for Ollenhauer's luckless flirtation with Khrushchev. The likeliest candidate to lead the party is Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, 62. Convivial, mellow-voiced Carlo Schmid is by all odds the most articulate Social Democrat advocate of broadening the party's middle-class appeal. He was once an officer in Hitler...
More than a million Chicagoans lined the Lake Michigan shore front to watch the royal yacht Britannia steam into harbor, escorted by seven warships and saluted by more than 500 small craft, including two Chinese junks. U.S. Air Force and Navy jets thundered across the sky; aerial torpedoes exploded parachutes carrying the Stars and Stripes and Union Jacks...
...once Anglophobic Tribune (whose late proprietor, Colonel Robert McCormick, suspected that Rhodes scholars were British agents in disguise) flew the Union Jack from its tower. As the royal couple acknowledged greetings from a welcoming party of seven Midwestern Governors and 40 mayors, pressing throngs surged forward, fairly overran the 2,000 city police who were assigned to guard the Queen. "That's a lovely billy-I'd like to borrow it some time," cracked Prince Philip to a Chicago cop as he eyed the yelling people. "Hi, Liz!" they cried. "Hey, Queen!" That night at a glittering dinner...
...been home much recently. Her most publicized wandering pirouetted her smack into "the presidential suite" of a Panamanian jail after her husband, ex-Panamanian Diplomat Roberto ("Tito") Arias, took her along on a comic-opera invasion attempt aimed at overthrowing Panama's government with a motley seven-man force (TIME, May 4). She was booted from the country next day. Last week Covent Garden's directors announced that the West's greatest ballerina will no longer be billed as one of its regulars. From now on, peripatetic Dame Margot will be a "guest," dancing with the troupe...
...emergency committee of seven senior executives was placed in temporary command last week, and CBC's harassed-and understandably weary-acting president, Ernest Bushnell, 58, was packed off on two months' leave. Added up, the CBC was striking evidence of the trouble that is inherent in government operation of a medium of communication in a free society...