Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Laos had been a month without a government, a Laotian official explained: "We have a proverb which says, 'Do Not Hurry,' so the formation of a new government will probably take some time." Last week Laotian Deputies finally got around to confirming a new Premier, and he seemed to be worth waiting...
...three-up lead at the 18-hole lunch break, still led two-up after 26 holes. But she three-putted the 27th and Anne got her short game going better than ever. She birdied three of the next four holes (one with a brilliant 25-ft. putt) to take the lead. At the 34th hole, Anne cautiously surveyed a difficult uphill nine-footer, calmly dropped it for still another birdie to win the title in a great finish. 3 and 2. Said the new champ: "This is a dream I've had since...
Busmen are not the only ones who take busmen's holidays, according to Alsatian-born Author-Artist Tomi Ungerer. "Whatever your profession," he writes in Scope Weekly (a digest of medical news published for Upjohn Co.), "after some years of practice your mind is inevitably influenced. Soon every day's activities are considered from your own point of view, and even on holidays you can't stay away from routine obsessions. The meteorologist will keep searching the sky, and the geologist the earth. And it is the same for the physician." So Ungerer, who takes in vacation...
Cathedrals (which take their name from cathedra, a bishop's chair or throne) must go, said a bishop last week. Reno's Roman Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer, who blasted Nevada's nightclub nudity last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 18), told a study group in Cincinnati that the concept underlying the cathedral has "lost its reference and validity for the age we live...
...works with his three sons-Dave, 51, Stan, 45, and Bill, 39-one of whom is at the helm while the others help Rosy take pictures. He keeps about ten cameras in a special frame on top of the engine hatch, garners up to 500 negatives on a good day. Every picture taken by him or his sons bears the same credit line: Morris Rosenfeld. Rosy's pictures bring as much as $5,000 each. They often settle fouling claims for bedeviled racing officials, and solve design problems for stumped yacht architects...