Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idea!" So eager was General Eisenhower for battle that he forswore his customary distaste for a news conference, and stayed in town to hold one last week. When the reorganization questions popped, he poured it on. First off, he knocked down the recurrent complaints that the new plan (TIME, April 14) would make a czar out of the Defense Secretary. "Let's look at the built-in constitutional guards that there are," said he. "A commander in chief over the Secretary of Defense [who in turn] is certainly not going to be very effective if four chiefs of staff...
Pierians kept the "town" in mind when planning their activities. Whenever they felt they played well enough, they serenaded the ladies of Cambridge. Invitations inside the ladies' homes to warm the chilled musicians were the objects of these expeditions, but if an invitation were lacking, the resourceful Pierians turned to the Wursthaus of their...
Speaking as a Cambridge citizen, the attorney added that he felt the decision would help University relations with residents of the town, since it indicates that Harvard is making an attempt to alleviate the parking problem...
...crowd of 300 journalists, art lovers and notables waited in a school courtyard in the small French Riviera town of Vallauris. The master, as usual unimpressed by ceremony, arrived dressed in faded corduroy pants, yellow shirt and bright orange scarf. Pablo Picasso bussed his good friend, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, on both cheeks, then shook hands with Director of French Museums Georges Salles, down from Paris for the occasion -the unveiling of Picasso's much heralded 32-by-29-ft. mural for UNESCO's new Paris headquarters. Picasso yanked the cord, pulling back the concealing curtain. The result...
Wounded, Nebu tries to get to a white town to deliver the boy to his friends. In his uncomplicated Kikuyu mind, he knows that he has wronged his white master and wants to atone by returning the youngster. As he carries him through the bush, trailed by a leopard waiting for a chance to make a double kill, Nebu is tormented by his son's presence even more than by his festering wound. The leopard, an implacable figure of retribution, provides a horrible ending that blends all the tragic elements of white, black and half-black frustrations and hatred...