Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASHINGTON EVENING STAR: THE future of this country belongs not to the traditional conservatives, but to those who travel down the center, or even a bit to the left of center of the political road...
...WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD : IT is too bad that the Democratic Party could not have had the same sort of purge of its more extreme troglodytic elements that the voters administered to the Republicans...
...toward week's end, any illusions of progress toward negotiated disarmament got a sudden jolt. In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviet Union had set off two nuclear explosions since the start of the Geneva conference. The explosions, "both of relatively low yield," took place in southern Russia, said AEC, rather than at the Arctic site "where most of the tests in recent weeks have been held." President Eisenhower promptly issued a statement notifying the world that "this action by the Soviet Union relieves the U.S. from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear-weapons...
...novel, La Reine des Pommes, a roman noir or dark-toned crime story that was hailed by Author Jean Giono as "the most extraordinary novel I have read in a long time," and praised by Jean Cocteau as "a prodigious masterpiece." Sculptor Harold Cousins, from Washington, D.C., has lived nine years in Paris, sold a sculpture last month to the Claude Bernard Gallery, and has been commissioned by Susse, the famed bronze caster, to do a mobile. Painter Beauford Delaunay, from Tennessee, lives in a small cottage in suburban Clamart and exhibits his work at the avant-garde Facchetti Gallery...
...maleficent diamond that has legendarily brought sinister fate to its owners for 300 years last week became the property of everyone in the U.S. By registered mail (postage: 90?; registry charge: $151.85), the Hope Diamond went from Manhattan to the new Hall of Gems and Minerals in Washington's Smithsonian Institution. Donor: Harry Winston, the jeweler prince, who bought the $1,000,000-$2,000,000, steel blue, 44½-carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping...