Word: siestas
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...ferrying a favored few thousands to the uncertain havens of Hanoi and Haiphong. Most of Namdinh's 80,000 people are staying on, awaiting the unknown, manning their shops, thronging a market place bright with aluminum pans, preserving the ritual of their noontide siesta. In the siesta, the calm of Namdinh seems to be the calm of a coma...
...Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., a thief returned 150 pennies and a -32-cal. revolver he had stolen from J. D. Molloy, added a note of explanation: "I tried to take these things but my conscience wouldn't let me, and by the way, I oiled your gun." Siesta. In St. Louis, police awakened Adolph Bohnn by pounding on the door of his loan company, told him that during his snooze a burglar had smashed a front window, set off the burglar alarm, pounded off the handle of the company safe with a hammer and an iron...
...dramatics field, Charles Leatherbee H.D.C. president, recovered from illness in time to take over as director of the club's ill-fated production "Fiesta." Miss Gloria Braglotti has been secured to "execute the exotic, primitive dance which climaxes the siesta scene in the play," and F. A. Pickard was in the cast for the world premiere. Eugene O'Neil bad called "Fiesta" the best example of Mexican peon life he had ever read; the author was even journeying to Cambridge to see his play staged. But the long arm of decency stopped in after several complaints from spectators that...
...Premier, Foreign Minister and Budget Minister, Pella puts in a ten- to twelve-hour day every day except Sunday, and he even forgoes the honored Italian siesta. So far, most Italians think he has used the time well...
Like the Metropolitan Museum's sculpture survey of last year (TIME, Dec. 17), this one turned out to be largely leaden and sometimes laughable. The unassuming grace of Clara Fasano's small terra cotta Siesta ($450) made it a legitimate standout. But the more typical exhibits, e.g., Maurice Glickman's hard-bitten Struggle ($5,000 in bronze) and Bernard Rosenthal's insectile Accordion Player ($750), were notable mainly for their strangeness. Granting that the nation's demand for sculpture is unfortunately limited, a good deal of the national supply seems to be unhappily misshapen...