Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...enough of this contrast. "The 13 Clocks" is another magnificent book, with all the sparkle of Thurber at his best. Amid the humor and the horse play there are lines of great beauty ("The Princess Saralinds. . . were serenity brightly like the rainbow." "Somewhere a clock dropped a stony chime into the night") One can enjoy this story for its verbal felicity alone...
...Sowers of Evil." Occasionally even these meager rights have been violated by mob action. Six weeks after one such episode, reports Garrison, "the periodical El Iris de Paz ('the Rainbow of Peace'!), by its own description 'a fortnightly magazine of information and guidance, Marian and Catholic'-answered a real or imaginary inquirer who asked: 'Is it lawful to enter into chapels or meeting places of Protestants . . . with the sole idea of disturbing and of destroying the furniture and other articles?' The answer was in three parts: 1) as to 'disturbing...
...Exercise Rainbow," an eight-day joint maneuver by nearly 100,000 U.S., British and French troops to test Western defenses against "an invasion by superior enemy forces from the East," began in Germany this week. The green-clad "invaders," a U.S. armored force, struck from the borders of Soviet-held East Germany and Czechoslovakia, forced back the British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating...
...Rainbow-chasing could not actually defend Western Europe against the present eight-to-one armed superiority of Soviet Europe. The real defense, rearmament, inched slowly ahead. For six weeks, the deputies of the twelve-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had been making plans for joint rearmament with a gap wide enough for a tank to crunch through: they had avoided discussing Germany, though effective European defense without Germany was impossible. When the NATO Foreign Ministers met in London last May, they had been afraid to tackle the vexed subject of rearming Germany. Korea had since changed the situation...
...Novelist Doris Miles Disney's* story of a raffish family's efforts to hornswoggle an insurance company out of $20,000 in death benefits, gives Actor David Wayne his first chance to cut loose with the comic talent he displayed in Broadway's Finian's Rainbow and Mister Roberts. With his help, Writer-Director Claude Binyon squeezes enough chuckles out of a series of corpses to make up for a romantic subplot that is dead on its feet...