Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird," grooming its round and bulbous nose, its disproportionately thick waist, its flared skirt, its unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny vacation shore the Bird will be fired, minus its warhead, on an 1,800-mile test shot southeastward across tropic islands and into an empty...
...given him his territory back and cleared his canal. At week's end, going a little further, Cairo announced that Nasser had decided to deny passage to Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and that his Saudi Arabian allies, who control the Gulf of Aqaba's southeastern shore, were determined to bar any assertion of Israeli shipping rights in such "absolute Arab territory...
Best Female Personality: Dinah Shore...
There were no inhabitants along the treeless gulf shore to cheer the Israeli pullout, but Gaza's 300,000 Arabs (220,000 of them Palestinian refugees on U.N. relief) more than made up for it. In Rafah crowds danced all day, shouting "Good Hammarskjold, good Abdel Nasser." After U.N.forces freed 120 political prisoners from Gaza's jail, thousands of Arabs paraded carrying such slogans as: "Welcome as guests but not rulers," and "We do not accept any rule except Egypt's." But the UNEF's taciturn commander, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, ordered...
Virtue & Pornography. The producer of Vienna's Annie, Austrian-born U.S. Citizen Marcel Prawy, had already successfully staged Kiss Me, Kate in Vienna (TIME, March 5, 1956). His announcement that he was bringing Annie Oakley and the Wild West to the Danube shore outraged critics. They rushed fiercely to defend the virtue of their Merry Widows, the dignity of their Countess Maritzas and the artistic solvency of their Gypsy Barons. American musicals, said critics, were "pornographic" and not fit for "Kulturstaaten." Furthermore, the government-subsidized Volksoper should be playing native Austrian composers. (Annie's defenders pointed out that...