Word: wind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known generically as proxmires. It has the best-oiled mechanism of any in DAMP. The Texas Titan is still on the secret list insofar as plans for firing are concerned. The decision will be made upon the basis of weather forecasts at the time-that is, which way the wind is blowing...
...casual eye, the mountain-locked central Asian kingdom of Afghanistan still looks much as it must have centuries ago. Camel caravans still wind below mud-walled villages perched for safety on hilltops. In the boulder-strewn valleys, leathery men in loose pantaloons guard their flocks with homemade rifles. Most Afghan women, gypsy-eyed and adorned with necklaces of silver coins, still hide their faces when a stranger appears. But in the windswept capital city of Kabul last week, TIME Correspondent Donald Connery found evidences on every side of Afghanistan's awakening-an awakening that is creating a fresh danger...
...Communist line, appeared at party rallies, specialized in social-protest numbers. But politics, he now believes, is not his line-possibly because he owns a chateau in Normandy, drives a $25,000 Bentley and reaps a fat profit from stage appearances and films (his latest: Where the Hot Wind Blows with Gina Lollobrigida). The mesmeric effect he has on females of all ages only occasionally bothers his wife, Cinemactress Simone (Room at the Top] Signoret. "When it gets too boring," says she, "and a woman won't leave the dressing room, I put on my prostitute face and just...
...wind-lashed shore of Lake Maracaibo last week, ground was broken for a new, $3,000,000 flour mill. Most of the Venezuelans who watched would have needed only one guess, if they did not know already, at the name of the man responsible for building the mill (jointly with Minneapolis' Pillsbury Co.). He is Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa, 52, a ranking example of the new, still small and largely unsung breed of Latin American industrialists who believe not only in good profit, but in productive private industry, well-treated, self-respecting labor, and-even more notable-in philanthropy...
...twirl. Finally, Calder settled on free forms, flying leaflike on the ends of metal branches strung from wire. "Mobiles" were born, and their cheerful bobbing and spinning helped many an observer find and appreciate other motions in nature. To turn from a pond or a tree tossing in the wind to look at an outdoor Calder, and then back again, can be one of the most rewarding experiences in modern...