Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House, then went home. Pat Nixon had roasted the 9-lb. turkey; Nixon's mother, Mrs. Hannah Nixon, had baked an apple pie; daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President's read: "Be Strong Be Wise Be Thoughtful Be Kind." After dinner, Nixon and U.S. Attorney General Rogers watched football on television (Texas 9, Texas A. & M. 7). Late that afternoon, returning...
...pleasant tuning-up hum of the Philharmonia Orchestra faded away and a hush fell over London's Royal Festival Hall. A tall, slightly stooped figure in a frock coat emerged from behind a yellow curtain. Feet dragging, he made his way to the podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...hilarious take-off on the morose moppet, Franchise Sagan (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956) and an equally funny spoof of Mickey Spillane called "Don Brown's Body." Sample: "I was going into Longchamps when this tomato waltzes by. She was a tomato surprise. A round white face with yellow hair poured over it like chicken gravy on mashed potatoes. Her raccoon coat was tight in all the right places...
...Seat. In Ahoskie, N.C., after city officials bought a dozen pairs of yellow plastic rain pants for the fire department, Chief J. D. Linkous noticed that inside each pair was a tag reading: "Do not use near heat...
...Alamos in 1944-45. He flew in a B-29 half a mile behind the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, later lined up against J. Robert Oppenheimer's refusal to speed development of the hydrogen bomb. Light-haired, blue-eyed, easygoing, he sports a yellow Lincoln convertible, shoots mid-80s golf (he sent President Eisenhower an electronic golf trainer that he had invented), once told his father: "I probably would be a better physicist if I turned longhair and stayed in the laboratory on Saturday nights and Sundays. But I prefer...