Word: timings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which, with two TV speeches, built his tirade time for the week to 15^ hours...
...billion for all public works and development programs. The refurbished carrier Minas Gerais (once H.M.S. Vengeance) will cost $36 million, enough to pave 3,900 miles of highway-and Brazil has no naval air arm to put aboard her. Argentina has spent $1 billion on defense since 1954. "Every time Ecuador buys armaments," notes Peruvian Foreign Minister Raul Porras, "we buy as much or more"; yet General Antonio Luna Ferreccio retorts for the brass: "Peru cannot be more disarmed...
...secretary" and inspiration since parting with Wife Maria in 1957. Italy's Nobel Prizewinning Poet Salvatore Quasimodo (TIME. Dec. 21) has had tall, blonde, sad-eyed Liliana Fiandra, 24, who proved her devotion to Leftist Quasimodo last year when at her own expense she rushed to Moscow to be at his bedside after he had a mild heart attack. But when Quasimodo, 58, took Liliana to Stockholm with him earlier this month for the Nobel ceremonies, Maria, 44, apparently viewed it as the last straw. Last week, taking a short recess from her dancing school, she was threatening...
...fired off a letter to Principal Larsh, who quickly agreed that the poems were "unsuitable" and that the book would be withdrawn. When Teacher Russell refused to do so, Alfred S. Roberts, a cheesemaker who heads the Venice Civic Union and devotes himself to ridding Venice of beatniks (TIME, Sept. 14), charged into the fray. What Barbara Jean's father calls the "poetry analogy" quickly vanished from the halls of Venice High School...
...spent months arranging it each year in several rooms of the palace, while his queen and her ladies in waiting sewed silk and velvet costumes for the new figures. One of the most striking of the Neapolitan presepios, owned by Collector Marcello Hallecker of Naples, is shown on TIME'S cover this week. Typical of many a presepio of the period, the scene has been arranged on a replica mountainside 12 ft. across. The manger itself is all but obscured by the teeming, noisy crowd that moils about the inn, oblivious of the vertiginous angels or of the event...