Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceremonial. They stood in sharp contrast to a few others in the party, beneath whose traditional robes reporters spotted signs of a more modern dress; one Saudi's robe flapped open to reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur, the crippled, brown-faced, 3½-year-old favorite son of the King, who had brought the boy to seek expert American medical attention at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital (see MEDICINE...
Haifa clothing merchants agreed to lend each officer a civilian suit for a day, and a tour usually began with host (recruited among Haifa doctors, lawyers, engineers and architects) and his Egyptian "guest" in a tailor shop amiably debating the fit or fashion of assorted suits or shirts. The host took his Egyptian wherever he wanted to go, to see whatever he wanted to see. Some went to the movies, to concerts, sipped coffee in cafés, went shopping in Haifa or Jerusalem. Others visited factories, cooperative villages and kibbutzim...
...embattled Cambridge School Committee voted last night not to rescind the 17 protested appointments made on Dec. 11, and passed new motions which may weaken the taxpayers' law suit against the committee. The board's actions were vigorously protested by School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the School of Education, who has opposed the appointments from the beginning...
Many TV colleagues envy Muggs his income, his fan mail (1,000 letters a week) his fan clubs, his wardrobes (450 outfits, including a set of tails and a gorilla suit), his white Corvette, his travels around the world with accommodations in the best hotels. But he has earned them all: he understands 500 words, can count his fingers, play the piano, spank himself, do cartwheels, raise his arms when he wants to be taken to the bathroom, and perform numerous other monkeyshines, including raising TV ratings. He is also the only TV personality on earth who has been denounced...
...only solvent body around, with a revenue of over $5,000. The University, representing the opposite extreme, announced that it needed roughly $100 million, for which purpose it began a campaign called "A Program for Harvard College," which involves sacrificial gifts from alumni. Radcliffe promptly followed suit by announcing its need for ten million, and even M.I.T. admitted to being on the verge of bankruptcy...