Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lottos, Sibelius' music for The Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream. But the festival was dogged by bad luck and bad weather, last summer had to close up shop in midseason. This summer, operating from a new site, it has come back stronger than ever. Last week, with the first Eastern performance of Handel's Semele and a performance of Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral (TIME, March 17, 1958), it had the look and the ebullient sound of the healthiest summer festival in the land...
...week, Buddhists were bowed in prayer. They had flocked to their temples carrying offerings of flowers and incense, and many had journeyed to Nakorn Pathom (meaning First City), 40 miles west of Bangkok, to honor the local temple's huge, pumpkin-colored, glazed stupa (tower) that marks the site of Buddhism's establishment in Thailand 21 centuries ago. The occasion: Purima Pansa, the three-months-long Buddhist Lent that gives many of the devout a chance to live in a monastery and become temporary priests...
...playgoers showed up with transistor sets, listening with earplugs, and at nearby San Quentin the warden postponed the lights-out of 11:15 p.m. until the Giants had won an extra-inning game. It was the same in Los Angeles, 350 miles to the southeast. At a rocket test site, an engineer could barely wait for the blast of an Atlas engine to subside before asking: "What's the inning and the score?" And at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, some 200 men crowded around a television set to watch the Dodgers win. Sighed one office truant: "Well, this...
...Mexico's rugged Taos Canyon, Ranger George E. Engstrom, 47, prowled through one of Carson National Forest's 22 picnic and campgrounds. The camp site was spotless. One reason was that Ranger Engstrom has a reputation for taking litterbugs to court...
...tried to avoid starches, but with a wife and four growing children he could not always afford the more expensive meat and vegetables. Even his family sadly wrote him off as a sly, solitary drinker. Six doctors in a row refused to believe him or to treat him. The site of Ohishi's secret still might have remained a secret still if he had not gone to Hokkaido University Hospital in Sapporo...