Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when 92 Southerners jumped the party line to vote for the Landrum-Griffin bill, many a Northern liberal felt betrayed, determined to end the era of cooperation. From a spate of conferences of liberal leaders came a three-pronged plan for reprisal. Northerners said they would: 1) fight harder than ever for a strong civil rights plank at next year's Democratic national convention; 2) renew and increase their efforts to dilute the authority of Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, leader of the Southern bloc and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee; and 3) refuse to back...
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Spoken Word, 3 LPs) gets a fine new production by the players of the Dublin Gate Theatre, with Michael MacLiammoir as Malvolio, "sick of self-love," posturing his priggish way with timeless vulgarity. London is also out with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half...
Reluctant Progress. To the outside world, he is not nearly as well known as his two fellow Premiers. In spite of a spate of political scandals, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe remains the undisputed leader of the Eastern Region, is almost solely responsible for raising the Ibos from tribal backwardness to their present positions in government in the Eastern Region and in education. A British-educated barrister. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region, runs the most efficient government of all. But the crucial fact remains that the Sardauna in the north rules a land of ancient walled cities...
...British have not been happy to see Germany replace them recently as Europe's No. 1 trading power. A spate of war movies, a new rash of generals' memoirs and war-adventure tales, the unearthing last week of a live German bomb beside the Thames near .Waterloo Station, all keep alive old memories. Some might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there...
...barrels littered small Haitian airports to prevent clandestine landings. In Port-au-Prince, a spate of political murders sent oppositionists into hiding and kept nerves taut. Behind the crisis lay President Francois Duvalier's fear that he would become a stepping stone in Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's planned invasion of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. "Haitian exiles are being trained in Havana," said Duvalier. Exhorting his people to fight back, he raised the war cry of famed Patriot Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806): "Coupe tetesl Boulé cailles...