Word: meridians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHN VIA Meridian, Miss...
Champagne in Fatigues. Still dressed in fatigues, Castro marched into the Hotel Statler next morning, precisely on time for a friendly champagne-and-steak luncheon with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter. "Ha, they gave me little [new] potatoes!" said Fidel. That afternoon, strolling through Meridian Hill Park, he signed autographs for teenagers. "What do you call your government?" asked one. "Socialism, or what?" Castro smiled. "Cubanism!" he announced. "I feel very good," he added, scratching his chest...
Modern Jacobins? There is agreement on this point from Roman Catholic Layman William Clancy, education director of the Church Peace Union (an interfaith organization aimed at abolishing war), and Arthur Cohen, a Jew and publisher of Meridian Books Inc. Both agree that (as Cohen puts it) religion in the U.S. is apt to be "ineffective," victimized by "internal confusion and disorder," generally "deteriorating," and that (in Clancy's words) religion is apt to be a matter of good fellowship and good works, with the American "consensus" on moral and philosophic principles growing ever narrovver...
...Lean talked him out of it. For 3½ months the cast and crew sweated it out on jungle location. Poker and 16-mm. movies were the only relaxations. Bickering was incessant. Alec avoided it by sneaking off to fish in the river ("Never caught a bloody thing"). The meridian sunlight fell like hot rivets, the humidity was seldom below 85. The flies thrived. "One day," Alec recalls with grim satisfaction, "I killed 681 of them." Ten minutes after his last scene was shot, he was racing to the nearest airport and the London plane, and he has not left...
...Meridian, Miss., Bob Goodman was arrested for bigamy after being divorced by two wives on consecutive days and remarrying the first one the day after that...