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...await its end, lapped in the comfort of hoarded memories, expensive motorcars and the fellowship of their own kind. Noisy intruders are seldom permitted to disturb the genteel gossip and endless bridge games that help time pass for the oldsters in Eastbourne. Yet, last week, all of Britain was abuzz with the awful speculation that skulking, sudden death had forced its way into Eastbourne...
...America. Big, rumpled Chris Ravndal, whose great forte is public relations-he likes to get out into the back country and put across the U.S. point of view-served his first ambassadorial assignment in Uruguay, is an authority on Latin American affairs. All the shifts left the State Department abuzz at week's end with one big unanswered question: Who replaces Allen as Assistant Secretary for the Near East...
...Rorimer, director of The Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum's medieval branch in Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park. Rorimer began constructing The Cloisters in 1934, has since made it the world's best museum of medieval art and a major tourist attraction. This week Manhattan was abuzz with rumors that Rorimer was in line for a new and even more demanding assignment: filling the large chair vacated by wide, witty Francis Henry Taylor as director of the whole Metropolitan Museum...
When Bell Telephone Laboratories announced its silicon solar battery (TIME, May 3, 1954), it fired the imaginations of the science fictionists, and the solar system was soon abuzz with solar-powered space ships. Trimming their silicon sails to catch the sunlight, spacemen used the electricity generated by the batteries to push themselves from planet to planet...
...last night of the tournament, with Spain and France running neck & neck for the world title, San Sebastian was abuzz with pelota talk. The local fronton (court) was crammed with 3,000 spectators straining at the wire screen that separated them from the players (and also from the hard rubber ball, covered with goatskin, that zips up & down the court at a 100 m.p.h. clip...