Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Sundown. The effect of this "friendly warning" on the Gaillard government was electric. When the crucial Cabinet meeting opened at 9 a.m., right-wing ministers were breathing heavily over U.S. "interference in French affairs," adamantly proclaiming their determination to resign rather than agree to "excessive concessions" to Tunisia. But two hours after sundown, when liveried footmen finally flung open the doors to mark the end of the session, florid right-wing Agriculture Minister Roland Boscary-Monsservin told waiting reporters: "There have been no resignations. The government has reached a decision in principle...
Shadow Cabinet. Sitting in an outer wing of the presidential palace watching these goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed...
Things began, dashingly enough, with a deal signed with Communist Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia for small arms, jet fighters and bombers. In Djakarta. Communist and left-wing newspapers interrupted their anti-American, anti-SEATO tirades long enough to cheer wildly President Sukarno's new link with the Reds. Bands of young toughs smeared anti-U.S. slogans on the walls of the American embassy in Djakarta; Red-run delegations streamed up the embassy steps to present resolutions telling the U.S. to keep its hands off Indonesia...
Jazzman Camp wields his gallused, honky-tonk style on an Emory Cook record called The New Clavichord. The old-fashioned clavichord has a gentle tinkle, but partly through the recording technique, Camp gives such numbers as Wing and a Prayer and Cocktails for Two an ice-edged, splintered sound full of white fire and ghostly glimmer. In Slow Slow Blues he etches some wonderfully spidery lines. The sound is not for everybody, but Camp is convinced: "It brings out the contrapuntal lines. It lends itself to blues beautifully...
...chose it as the power plant for the prototype of its new CL-41 trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice of the highway-building program. While the Government puts up most of the money to build a new bridge, the trouble is that the states are responsible for bearing the cost of all maintenance. Aluminum does not need painting or scraping, so it answers much...