Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the Russians tried to kidnap Evdokia, and almost succeeded. They hustled her into a black Cadillac, sped 190 miles at top speed to Sydney. At the airport, an angry crowd mobbed the Cadillac, tried to overturn the car. The Russian guards dragged Evdokia through the gates while the mob, now 3,000 strong, chanted "Don't let her go." Trying to smile for photographers, Evdokia wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard...
...Proprieties. In Sydney, Australia, the New South Wales transport department issued 7,000 cut-rate streetcar and bus tickets for children, on each ticket printed the warning: "Do not smoke in a nonsmoking compartment...
...Sydney Goldstein and Eugene G. Fubini were named the first two Gordon McKay Visiting Lecturers of Applied Science. Fubini will be in residence for the fall term, while Goldstein will spend the entire year here...
...took a double first in modern languages and history, then was elected a fellow of Corpus Christi. A fellow student was Sydney Courtauld, only daughter of the late textile millionaire and art collector Samuel Courtauld. Dark, handsome, intensely -interested in politics, she was attracted by Rab's intelligence and drive. In 1926 they were married. His wife brought Rab wealth, entree into the famous Tory homes of Mayfair, and, eventually, a constituency-Saffron Walden in Essex County, where Courtauld had a country house in which the Butlers now live. From there, in 1929, Rab was elected to Parliament...
From Canberra. Albert went to Sydney and to Melbourne, where he attended his first big art exhibition. He nodded happily on seeing some of his own landscapes, was horrified at modern abstractions...