Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cause of this stormy marathon was, as usual, France's most divisive topic: Algeria. When a French Premier wants to take a necessary but unpopular step, he usually waits until the French Assembly is in recess so that he cannot be thrown out of office immediately. But the right-wingers in his Cabinet, who oppose any concessions in Algeria, were committed to quit in a body if Gaillard misstepped, and thus even in parliamentary recess his hands were tied...
...press to see the haute couture creations that this year will tell the American woman how to look like a lampshade (see BUSINESS). Day after day, model after model slinked before scribbling newshens, who busily sighted the bearings of each belt, buckle and bow. After one tense model marathon, the New York Herald Tribune's capable Eugenia Sheppard (TIME, Aug. 12) confessed: "I was a wreck by the end of the show, and to tell the truth, my notes are a mess...
...tablets, and finally took out his explosive anger on Hoad. His blistering serves kicked too high and hard to be handled. He got his racket up to almost all of Lew's astonishing stop volleys, and somehow he kept up the incredible pressure until he won the wearing marathon...
...Crimson's team entry yesterday won the New England Amateur Athletic Union 10,000-meter cross country meet. Johnny Kelly, Boston marathon runner won the race, with the Crimson's Dyke Benjamin, Pete Reider, and Jim Schlaeppi finishing third, fourth, and fifth, in that order...
...Manila, Garcia played so badly that the aide won. But as the counting went on, the President's chess got better. By the next afternoon the typhoon that had swamped his rivals' Luzon strongholds had blown out to sea, the aide had been hopelessly outdistanced in the marathon chess series, and Garcia knew that he was the Philippines' President for four more years...