Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swedish carpet dealer and importer. On a previous trip to Red China last year he had bought only modern carpets, ivory and porcelain. This time, taken down winding Peking streets to out-of-the-way antique shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized he was getting an official green light, started off on a buying spree...
...grow. Yet Garcia ruled that non-Catholics might not be citizens, subordinated the state to the church, in 1873 solemnly dedicated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A leather worker hacked him to death in 1875. For the next 20 years Ecuador floundered through civil war, brigandage and six more dictators...
...Venice's International Festival of contemporary music last year (TIME, Oct. 6), Stravinsky got his wish. The composer's Threni, id est Lamentationes ]eremiae Prophetae (i.e., Threnody, Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) is a complex, 33-minute work for six vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and the bass part, ranging from middle B-flat to low E-flat, is the most difficult of all. At Venice, says Conductor Robert Craft, who rehearsed Threni's chorus, the starring role should have been the tenor, "but there was no question that Oliver ran away with all the honors...
...astronauts' experiences leading up to and including the first trips into space. The men early decided on the seven-way split (actually 14, since the astronauts' wives are contract signatories) on the common-sense ground that though only one man could be first up, the other six will probably follow...
...close all the public schools, thus diverting the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation order. The next step is setting up private schools by giving state tuition grants to all school-age children (though not necessarily Negroes). Already the plan has been made possible by new laws in six states-Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia. Other states are considering it. What few seem to be considering is the consequences...