Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...carped at Wadsworth for working too hard at it. But such carpings are not likely to interfere with Wadsworth's Senate confirmation as U.N. delegate. Republicans are eager to have him take over at the U.N. so that Lodge can get on to politicking. And on the Democratic side, Wadsworth has a champion in Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, who is married to Wadsworth's sister...
Memories of Korea. Dag talked with U.S. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge in his suite. The U.S. was sympathetic to the Belgian position but not ready to side with it, sobered by the risk that Congo might become another Korea. The U.S. thought that the Belgians should get out of Katanga fast. That viewpoint was forcefully expressed to the British, French, Italians and South Americans...
...Famille. Even in Vientiane no one took this suggestion seriously-and Vientiane was all of Laos that Kongle controlled. Troops in Luangprabang were still loyal to Premier Somsanith. Each side was kept from having to attack the other by the fact that the road between Vientiane and Luangprabang was washed out by the monsoon. Most of the 28,000-man Laotian army scattered throughout the country either had not heard of the revolt at all or reacted with Laos' soft, favorite phrase, "be pen nyan [it doesn't matter]." To break this stalemate, Kongle suggested the formation...
...true Manhattan snob boasts that he never goes to the pier-fringed West Side except when sailing to Europe. In that spirit, Actress Tallulah Bankhead last week lamented to a New York Timesman that she will soon be forced to journey west to begin rehearsals for her first Broadway appearance since 1957, the title role in Midgie Purvis, a new farce by Mary Chase. Said Tallulah in her Far East town house: "I never leave the East Side. I haven't been to a nightclub in ten years, and the theater bores me-and besides, I haven...
Like an Airplane. Pei's laboratory is even more daring than it looks. It has no interior columns but is supported by reinforced concrete piers on either side of the building. The piers also hold all the elevators and mechanical equipment. Each floor is hung like a bridge span between the piers. By doing away with interior columns, Pei gives the building open space which can later be converted into either a library or an auditorium. The windows are ovals. Explains Pei: "Since the outer walls are trusses, I had to obey the stress lines developed in the truss...