Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the instant his doctors approved the trip-"They tell me I can go," cried Ike to Press Secretary James Hagerty-the President drove himself hard, despite the fact that he was only 15 days away from his stroke. Just 45 minutes from Paris the Columbine got a message from U.S. officials that Paris was cold, with a 36° temperature and a cutting wind. Should the welcoming ceremonies at Orly airport be moved inside? Replied Eisenhower: negative...
Indonesian leaders insisted that the trip would be a vacation, pure and simple. Sukarno's nerves had been "shattered" by the assassination attempt, they said. To back up their claim, they pointed to the fact that three physicians had certified that the President "should go abroad for distraction." They did not point out that none of the physicians had actually made a detailed examination of Sukarno, or that one other highly respected doctor, asked to make a similar certification, had refused to do so without properly examining the President. Sukarno refused to submit to the examination...
...refreshingly sober choice for prizes. Top honor and $2,000 went to Edward Hopper for a calm, direct and powerful water color done at Pacific Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable mentions (plus $250 each) went to Italy's Gustavo Foppiani, France's Bernard Lorjou and Bernard Buffet, Brazil...
...city tax bill in 1956 on Grand Central Terminal and its 5.4-mile approach, a $2,000,000 increase since 1952. Furthermore, railroads must maintain cut-rate "incentive" commuter fares in hours of peak demand. A New Haven commutation ticket between New York and Greenwich, Conn, cuts the round-trip fare to $1.06 (v. straight-ticket cost of $2.20). Park Forest to Chicago round-trip commuters pay only...
...party. Falling down drunk, the husband tries to make up to Gioia by proposing a toast which he begins with a disastrous slip of the tongue: "To my wife Rosanna!" Gioia locks him out of their room. "Go sleep with the dead!" she rages. He takes a trip. Desperate to be loved, and loved for what she is, she gives herself to her husband's adopted son (Anthony Franciosa...