Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Twenty-four hours later, the plane set down at Honolulu, and the 85-year-old Rhee slowly clambered out to be draped with leis by Korean residents of Hawaii. Back in Seoul, the South Korean government announced that Rhee had decided to get "a few months' rest" in Hawaii, where he had lived for 25 years before World War II. To newsmen's questions, Madame Rhee firmly declared: "We expect to go back...
...last week O.C.U. had raised $2,170.-000. in amounts ranging from $1 to $500.-000. The money will give O.C.U. topnotch science equipment and books; it will pay for sending faculty members to M.I.T. for training. Most important, it will be used to set up 75 four-year scholarships (average cost: $1,000 a year) for the ablest youngsters O.C.U. can find. Score card to date: 21 scholarships, awarded to high school seniors throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Casting a bit of sarcasm at Oklahoma U.. Oilman McGee said: "We aim to recruit bright students just like Bud Wilkinson...
...Cove. As finally assembled, the picture tells the story of a young TVAgent (Montgomery Clift) who is ordered to turn an 80-year-old woman (Jo Van Fleet) off her land so that a big new dam can be closed, the area flooded, and a waterpower project set in motion. She refuses to budge. "I don't sell my land," she croaks fiercely, "my land that I poured my heart's blood into...
...Gstaad (Aug. 8-18). Founded three years ago by longtime Summer Resident Yehudi Menuhin, it now attracts front-rank musicians who are hand-picked by Yehudi. get no fee. In the 14th century Protestant Church of Saanen. the wealthy chalet set will this year hear Yehudi play with the Zurich Chamber Music Orchestra and his sister Hepzibah in a series devoted to works of Schubert, Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn and Mozart...
...Set in the Colorado highlands in the early 19005, the musical is a reminiscent farce, a kind of Die Rockymaus telling Tales of the Boulder Woods. It actually owes most to Friml's Rose Marie, whose Royal Canadian Mounties are now red-jacketed U.S. Forest Rangers. Little Mary enters carrying flowers in one hand, a watering can in the other, and stainless steel morals in her breast. She loves the No. i Forest Ranger, a strapping fellow, tall as a sequoia and equally intelligent. Wild improbabilities follow one another in woolly sequences; the skillfully imitative melodies by Rick Besoyan...