Word: antone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other man was Anton Marek, senior police inspector and a staunch anti-Nazi, last seen in 1948 entering Soviet occupation headquarters in answer to a telephone summons. Reported Moscow: Marek, now 65, is serving 20 years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...
...Visitors. Adamic had been working for almost three years on a new book, The Eagle and the Roots, in which he pictured Yugoslavia as a democratic nation and a rock sturdily withstanding the tide of Russian Communism. In San Francisco, Yugoslav Correspondent Anton Smole, an old friend of the author, said he was certain that Adamic had been murdered for taking this stand. He also explained why Adamic had slipped away from New Jersey-and why he had quietly gone back...
Happily, reports Landon, the society has cleared up at least one bothersome question in its hero's favor: it was really Haydn-and not, "as certain German circles tried to prove," Anton Kraft-who wrote Haydn's fifth Cello Concerto...
...Philippines, other scientific fishermen were combing even deeper waters. Dr. Anton F. Bruun of the Danish research ship Galathea reported that there seems to be no limit to the depths that life can sink. His men dredged the bottom of the Mindanao trench, the deepest part (35,400 ft.) of the ocean, never explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons...
...opposition. The fascist-like Syrian National Party wanted Lebanon reunited with Syria to become part of an Arab superstate, Greater Syria. El Solh stood for Lebanon's complete independence. Two years ago the Syrian National Party broke out in open revolt. The revolt was suppressed and Party Leader Anton Saadeh, who fled to Syria, was extradited, tried and shot. His followers swore they would get revenge on el Sohl...