Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene outside Central High School was anything but violent. After a classic tradition, high-school boys stood around ogling high-school girls-who were, in turn, ogling the young National Guardsmen. A handful of women began singing Dixie, faded dismally out before finishing. At top count, about 400 people appeared and. as one Arkansan told newsmen, "Before you boys get the wrong idea, remember there's no.ooo Little Rock people that ain't here." The nine previously accepted Negro students did not show up; they had been asked by the stunned school board to stay at home until...
...Mikoyan of 1957 can still turn on joviality like tap water, laugh off Khrushchev's blunted barbs, and knock back bottoms-up toasts in the Armenian cognac he calls "best on earth." He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer. His wife Anush (whom he found in Rostov's Armenian colony just after the revolution) calls him babnik, which means flatterer. She once declared that he was one of only two hand-kissing, courtly gentlemen in Moscow (the other: Lavrenty Beria). They have four sons (another was killed in World...
Since the rebels are capable of ripping up a mile or more of track in a single night, the train sometimes has to turn back despite all precautions. And so far, French attempts to ambush the guerrillas a-t work have been generally unsuccessful. Disappointing, too, is the radar system which the French set up to catch the guerrillas' movements. "The echo is fine against the rebels," said a French officer last week. "Unfortunately, it works just as well against goats and gazelles...
Bargains & Brahmins. Filene's Sons, as well as society, reaped the new riches. The first great discounter, the store had sales of $1,000,000 by the turn of the century, soon pushed them higher with a spectacular "automatic bargain basement." The Filenes stuffed their basement with discontinued lines, remainders, seconds that they bought far below original price. Then they passed on the savings: an automatic 25% off after twelve days, 50% after 18 days, 75% after 24 days, give it away to charity after 30 days. It rarely went that far. Only one-tenth...
...Angel" is a monster. Her real name is Angelica Deverell, and as the reader first meets her in a grubby, turn-of-the-century English small town, it is possible to mistake her for just another awkward young girl idly dreaming of escape. But quickly and chillingly it becomes clear that Angel is one of those rare and frightening people who take their dreams literally, cling to them even in the high noon of growing up, and are ready to lie, cheat or step over corpses to make their fancies come true. Angel dreams of being beautiful, clever, successful, beloved...