Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's son Leonid was a Red air force pilot killed early in World War II, and his daughter Lena, 21, is now a law student at Moscow University. Mostly back home, Mrs. Khrushchev keeps house in their trim villa, frequently talks to groups of fellow veteran Communist women, since 1957 has turned out increasingly with her husband at Kremlin receptions, trying out her growing knowledge of English on foreigners with sentences like: "Travel is so educational...
...flames spread. Larence County Sheriff Dick McGrath ordered all women and children to evacuate the town. Says Game Warden Kenny Scissons, who helped break up traffic jams: "There weren't many sportsmen in that crowd when it came to seeing who was going to get out first." Cars lurched out of town, decked with clothing, rifles, bicycles and skis; the girls from the cribs on Main Street hustled out, carrying their treasured negligees. The wind shifted, driving evacuees onto alternate highways, only to shift capriciously again, pushing the traffic stream back into other roads...
...community, Lexington (pop. 23,500) is full of skilled specialists and passionate hobbyists. Last year Richard Woodward, 36, director of audio-visual education in Lexington's public schools, decided to find out just how wide and deep the treasure-trove lay. With clerical aid from the League of Women Voters, he mailed out help-wanted appeals to Lexington's 6,800 home addresses. For $186 in postage stamps, he got back a rich haul. Examples...
...Salzedo bought a cottage on the rocky shore of Penobscot Bay in Camden, Me., called it the Summer Harp Colony of America. There every summer he teaches some 30 students who are almost always young women and who worship the brilliant, temperamental master (three marriages, three divorces). The practice is constant (five hours daily), the discipline severe. Salzedo must have it that way. For him. at least, "the harp is to music what music is to life...
Novelist Auchincloss, who has written this sort of book before (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Venus in Sparta), knows his forms and his upper-crust Long Islanders. His description of Esther and the other Parmelee Cove women pursuing the adulterers like a chorus of Eumenides has the rasp of accurate reporting. But if Reese's predicament is real, he himself is sometimes the sort of hero scissored by children from the backs of cereal boxes. His incessant wrestling with the devil is a little sophomoric, and his escape from Parmelee Cove shows the limits of even the best...