Word: weste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleaning Up. In West Orange, N.J., Mrs. Cleo Edwards, employed as a maid, was charged with petty larceny when she admitted drinking, in 2½ weeks, 32 bottles of her employer's liquor...
...week when New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1943-46, reported, in LIFE and in memos to top Administration policymakers, on his talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). To Harriman, Khrushchev seemed to be dangerously cocky, dangerously ignorant of the West. Even after discounting Khrushchev's performance as tactical bluffing in part, Harriman found him "shocking, worse than Stalin." Khrushchev's two biggest threats...
...West continues to insist on the right of free access to Berlin, that will mean war. ''but it will be your war." ¶ The U.S.S.R. has set up in Communist China an array of rockets with enough range to hit Formosa and destroy the U.S.'s Formosa-guarding Seventh Fleet; it will also back Red China in any invasion of Formosa...
...Colorado's McNichols, Florida's Collins, Idaho's Smylie, Illinois' Stratton, New Jersey's Meyner, North Carolina's Hodges, North Dakota's Davis, Utah's Clyde, West Virginia's Underwood...
...fiction, Wallach's fable is funny enough. He tells of a soulful young swimming-pool salesman who leaves Manhattan because "inside stuffy little apartments a million parakeets mess up their cages and refuse to say an intelligent word"-a conception subtle with the flavor of Zen-Zen, the West Coast's cultural mouthwash. In California, the hero sells pools frantically, working toward that aqueous millennium when "canoe trips from San Francisco to Tia Juana would be feasible, all by swimming pool and with no portage more than thirty yards...