Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beirut was slow to rise. But in the northern Moslem stronghold of Tripoli, crowds poured from a mosque to pillage, smash and burn every unshuttered shop. Goaded by agitators, the mob gutted the U.S. Information Agency library; some seized a model of the Vanguard satellite from a desk and kicked it about the street in a grotesque soccer game. In the city's chief square, troops fired. Ten died...
...Cligh-burn") has been Topic No. 1 in Russia for a month and a gusher of warm good will that has had more favorable impact on more Russians than any U.S. export-of word or deed since World War II. Ironically, the U.S. embassy was probably the last stronghold in Moscow to become aware of Van's coup; U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and his wife had not even made plans to attend Van's finals audition until they were convinced by American contestants that to fail to appear would be a major blunder. And the committee...
Laying Eggs. Everyone knew where the marauding planes were based: at the rebel stronghold of Menado in the Northern Celebes. But no one save the rebels themselves knew for certain where the small air fleet of four B-26s and two Mustang fighters had been purchased, or who were their pilots. Said a survivor of the tanker San Flaviano: "The plane came in mast-high and laid its eggs right on us. You can't tell me an American wasn't at the controls...
...West Quadrangle is really two quadrangles, designed by the same architect who framed the Wriston Quad, but had less money at the time, and so it is much smaller than the former. Finished just this past Fall, it is the stronghold of the independents, and has two large, comfortably furnished lounges, with six smaller ones scattered throughout the building. It has the antiseptic appearance and smell of a hospital, and its brick structure and sparse courtyards make it look like an old geometric oasis in the middle of a broad desert. It has parties...
Time to Retire? Even more damaging has been mounting evidence of Congress Party corruption, epitomized in the public mind by the insurance scandal that led to the ouster of ex-Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari (TIME, March 3). In Delhi, another longtime Congress Party stronghold. Congress candidates last month won only 31 out of 80 Municipal Corporation seats. Three weeks ago in Calcutta, Siddhartha Ray, a bright young Congress Party minister in the West Bengal state government, resigned office with the angry charge that "the people who control the West Bengal Congress today [are] an unscrupulous section of rich industrialists...