Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the U.S. was enjoying its peaceful, prosperous summer, two facts came clear about Communist diplomacy 1957. These were that 1) the Russians, pouring arms into Syria and ships into the Mediterranean, were back at their old oft-frustrated game of trying to get a foothold in the Middle East; and 2) they wanted no part of effective disarmament, a point proved when they turned down the West's latest and most moderate disarmament proposals-and instead brandished their first test-model intercontinental ballistic missile...
When Penelope, the duck-billed platypus, mysteriously escaped from her platypusary in New York's Bronx Zoo last summer, she became the first platypus in the U.S. outside captivity. The only other platypus in the U.S. remained in captivity, in the very platypusary where Penelope was wont to waddle. He was Cecil, 12, Penelope's intended. With Penelope gone (TIME, Aug. 19), not even the desperate search by a platyposse could trace her; regretfully she was given up for dead...
...King Farouk-was abandoned almost as soon as it was considered; the latest attempt to marry him to a daughter of Morocco's King Mohammed V was given up last winter. Reasons: her Moroccan Arabic was almost incomprehensible to an Iraqi, and besides, she was no blonde. This summer 22-year-old Feisal found the girl he wanted...
...Summer Splash. He had first met Princess Sabiha Fazilet on the French Riviera two years ago, when she was 14. They met again beside the Bosporus this summer. Taking his ease aboard the royal yacht Queen Aliyah, the young King found himself often in the company of buxom Princess Fazilet, whose ancestors were for centuries the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The tall, athletic girl towered over Feisal, but she soon took to wearing flat-heeled shoes, and she was undeniably handsome...
...last, with the connivance of both families, the two youngsters were brought together by purposeful accident-the young King on his yacht, the Princess in her family villa-for a summer of waterskiing, swimming, partying and spooning along Istanbul's fashionable Bosporus shore. Soon Feisal completely forgot the requirements of royal protocol, and popped the question without a by-your-leave from his government ministers or the girl's own family. "The two of them got engaged first and then asked if we approved," said Prince Mohammed Ali. "We said...