Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the yellow stone walls of Nicosia's Central Prison last week, three young Greek Cypriots in their early 20s awaited the hangman. Andreas Zakos and Charilaos Mikhail, condemned for ambushing a British army jeep and killing its driver, lay placidly on their cots and listened to records of Bach and Beethoven. Iacovos Patatsou, who had been condemned for killing a Turkish Cypriot policeman (out of uniform), accepted the farewell of his widowed mother: "Face death with courage...
Standing beneath the oil portraits of Bolivia's greatest heroes of the past, a man who is himself an authentic hero of Bolivia today will receive this week the gold medallion and green-red-yellow sash of the presidency. Hernan Siles Zuazo, 42, is following in his father's steps: 30 years ago, Hernando Siles stood in the same spot in the Chamber of Deputies to receive the presidential insignia...
...automobiles, one a $100,000 sports-car prototype hand-built in Turin for the Chrysler Corp. Down went 1,764 bags of mail, together with crates of antiques and cases of vintage wines. When the writhing sea was still, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen dropped a temporary tombstone: a yellow marker buoy...
Instead, the bare stage was bathed in cobalt blue, and a giant, soft. flower ball was suspended above a bench, which represented Hans Sachs' shop. For the singing contest of Act III, W71eland tried a bullfight effect, with a 50-ft. high amphitheater surrounding a bright yellow ring, in which the singers performed...
...against 3,613), a swift outbreak hit Chicago and suburbs. Almost every hour of every day last week, workers stuck a pin into a wall map in the office of Chicago's Health Boss Herman N. Bundesen. The red pins stood for new cases of paralytic polio, yellow for nonparalytic, black for fatal cases. By week's end there were 268 pins-166 red, 97 yellow, five black (as against 39 cases, two deaths, at the corresponding date last year...