Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flag-bedecked lower Broadway last week rode Sékou Touré, president of Africa's fledgling Republic of Guinea, to complete his two-week swing through the U.S. with a traditional Manhattan ticker-tape welcome. Convinced that the U.S. meant its best (TIME, Nov. 9), Touré showed no sign of offense at the fact that the red, yellow and green flags along the street were those of Africa's Ghana, not Touré's Guinea. (Embarrassed city officials explained that a flagmaker delivered the wrong flags...
...With these words, candidates were welcomed into the CRIMSON Newsroom for the opening meeting of the Crime's first competition of the year. Escape was the keynote, Crimeds told of escape from angry deans, the dull academic routine, and even from Harvard itself. Beer cans hissed and the AP ticker tapped out "pockatapockatapockata" while candidates chortled in festive glee...
...broad, well-woofed welcome mat. In New York Harbor's Gravesend Bay, the new Holland-America liner Rotterdam met the Dutch destroyer Gelderland, transferred a special passenger: plumply pretty Princess Beatrix, 21, heiress presumptive to the throne of The Netherlands. Under cloudbursts of ticker tape, she was driven up lower Broadway, incidentally passing over the site where marooned Dutch sailors spent the winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President Eisenhower in Washington, but would spend much of her time in the Hudson River Valley...
Bullish. In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the brokerage firm of Manley, Bennett & Co., at a party celebrating the opening of new offices, served martinis containing purely decorative olives stuffed with ticker tape...
...Koning!" (in Flemish: "Long live the King!") from some of the city's 38,000 residents of Belgian descent. Moving fast, he did Chicago in 20 hours, ended his week in Dallas. With reserve strength needed for a dozen more cities, including visits to Disneyland, SAC headquarters and a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, Baudouin took a day off, enjoyed a relaxing round of golf, matched grooved swings with Old Master Ben Hogan. No one kept score...