Word: unveils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cordial acquaintance with countless thousands of her subjects all over the world. She will be required to preside graciously at half a hundred state balls, garden parties, luncheons and banquets, at eleven investitures, 133 receptions and 27 children's displays. She will open six Parliaments, lay seven wreaths, unveil three memorials, plant six trees, dedicate a school in Fiji, a road in Jamaica and a cathedral in New Zealand. If all this does not in itself add up to history, the tact, charm and grace with which Elizabeth and her husband perform their courtesy calls will have an important...
Coffee fo Kahve. Ataturk moved the capital from cosmopolite Constantinople to raw Ankara and changed Constantinople's name to Istanbul. Though he personally abhorred emancipated women (they argued, instead of saying yes), he begged Turkey's women to unveil, and most did. He abolished the Moslem sheriat (law) and took the best from Europe to replace it-Switzerland's civil code, pre-Fascist Italy's penal code, Germany's commercial code...
...present one, 400 Connecticut citizens gathered for a special ceremony. There was a speech by Lieut. Governor Allen and a letter from President Eisenhower, and each was translated into sign language for the deaf in the audience. Finally, six-year-old Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet III marched up to help unveil a symbolic statue of a girl supported by a pair of stone hands making the sign for "light." The ceremony was in honor of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and the co-founders of his school "to express the gratitude of the deaf of the nation...
This week New Orleans will unveil its Kress gift: 31 paintings, spanning four centuries, from the Renaissance's 14th century dawn to the last flowering in the 18th century, and including such greats as Tintoretto, Bellini, Veronese. Two of the finest are Tiepolo's angelic 18th century Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, with its ruddy flesh tones, velvety browns and yellows, and Pannini's The Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome, whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston...
Last summer the Museum of Modern Art plugged a model of a Geodesic Dome into its landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky...