Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are treating my people down South, the Government can go to hell," trumpeted Jazzman Louis Armstrong, and announced that he was withdrawing from a U.S.-financed trip to the Soviet Union. Nightclub Songstress Eartha Kitt was of like mind. "The country is angry, and it will take a long time to settle down," she cried. "You can't have a strong country with a nitwit like that for President." And Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo. told friends: "If this had happened when I was in the White House, I would have had Faubus in Washington...
Abrams had been on a tour of Europe when he received a chance to go to Moscow through the Polish delegation as a non-Communist participant in the Festival. He said he was prompted to make the trip by a desire to see the country and the possibility that he could get the Western message across to some Russians. Once in the Soviet capital, he tended to pass up the Festival itself and concentrated on making more immediate contacts with the Russian people...
Colonel in Disguise. Despite Djuanda's fervent appeal for openhearted and brotherly discussion at last week's conference, the people in the shed eyed one another mistrustfully throughout. Before the conference began, Colonel Sumual carefully disguised himself as a Chinese merchant and made a secret trip from Celebes to Sumatra to confer with his fellow rebel colonels. They decided to attend the conference only if Premier Djuanda and Mohammed Hatta would guarantee their personal safety. This the two statesmen agreed...
...SHOW" PROBLEM is being whipped by U.S. airlines, which last year lost $10 million on people who made reservations but missed flights. Lines report substantial success with new rules that tickets must be picked up in advance and return reservations must be reconfirmed at least six hours before trip. Now lines will start fining no-shows $3 each...
...Feathers Scott and Old Rough-and-Ready Taylor shoved Mexico back across the Rio Grande, Captain King and his partner, Mifflin Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, was fascinated by the lush grass where the Wild Horse Desert grew green along the brush-lined bends of Santa Gertrudis Creek. Soon afterwards, he deserted the river for ranching. By the time the Civil War broke out, Rancher King was spreading his holdings steadily...