Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Startled Guests. Outwardly his trip to Damascus looked a lot like the old "positive neutrality" sessions that King Saud used to hold with the Syrians and Egyptians before he took his stand beside Ike in Washington last winter against Communist penetration of the Middle East. Four MIG jets escorted his plane to Damascus' Mezze field, where the King stepped forth in flowing brown robes to review an honor guard, kiss the cheeks of President Shukri el Kuwatly and listen to purple-worded welcomes. Privately the King warned both Kuwatly and new Army Chief Afif Bizri (who denies U.S. allegations...
...choice of the state bar association. President Eisenhower appointed him to the federal bench, where he quickly won a reputation as a no-nonsense judge who could cut incisively through legal complexities. ("There's no one I'd rather have with me on a camping trip," says a friend, "but I'd take any other judge in the state if I were in court and guilty.") Then on Aug. 22, 1957, the Fargo Forum carried a brief notice tucked away on an inside page: "U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies of Fargo will leave Saturday for Little...
...class. So Mrs. Betty Stevens, English teacher and sponsor of this year's senior class, decided to try something different. Instead of seeing her charges mill around all evening at a rough-house gymnasium party, she would get the seniors to lead the freshmen on a pre-Halloween trip through a haunted house. Principal William Hobert Sallee, 60, got into the spirit of the thing, thought the kids might get a kick out of finding him hanging in a dark room...
...amity, Hatta had, in effect, agreed to moderate his outspoken criticism of the President. But, Hatta discovered last week, cagey Politician Sukarno himself was making no move to moderate the very policies that had caused the trouble in the first place. A disappointed man, Hatta took off for a trip to Red China as a guest of Premier Chou Enlai. Steadfastly antiCommunist, Hatta did not expect to like Sukarno's friends any more because of what he would see of their masters in Peiping...
...shrunken Tiber. On Moravia's showing, at least, it is easy to see how their ancestors managed to run the world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves. In Taboo, a story about a shop clerk who steals his friend's girl with fancy talk of his own mysterious powers. Author Moravia suggests his moral: the poor must resign themselves to being cheated. The best...