Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teach a new boy tricks? See TV & RADIO, Lassie Stays Home...
...nuclear weapons, is about equal to the U.S. in aircraft and radar development, is ahead in ballistic missiles. Said Teller: "I would not say that the Russians caught up with us because they stole our secrets. They caught up with us because they worked harder. A Russian boy thinks about becoming a scientist like our young girls dream about becoming a movie star...
Francesco Costantini was only an unschooled village boy from Viterbo when he went to Rome at the age of 14 and landed a job as office boy in the U.S. Embassy. His budding career in the world of diplomacy nearly ended three years later when he was fired for getting into a fight. But Francesco was a resilient boy. Soon afterward he landed another job in the British embassy and from there went on to change, in his modest way, the course of history. Last week, having long since retired as one of the most successful spies in history...
...momentous changeover in his early life, "the British were standoffish and haughty. I never learned to like them." He did learn to imitate their cool, diplomatic ways. As the years rolled by and Victor Emmanuel's monarchy gave way to Benito Mussolini's dictatorship, the village boy became a perfect embodiment of that superdiplomat-the diplomatic gentleman's gentleman. As a tactful and understanding embassy servant he was entrusted with all sorts of delicate missions by the well-born young Britons of His Majesty's Foreign Service. He got them theater tickets, arranged discreet assignations...
...biggest boost: a brutal counter-terrorism campaign that drove thousands of Cubans from neutrality to opposition. Irresponsible police thugs in Havana blunderingly murdered Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, a respected, nonviolent leader of the anti-Batista Orthodox Party ("About like killing Lyndon Johnson," say the rebels). A 15-year-old boy, suspected of bomb tossing, was castrated in Santiago and shipped home dead to his mother. When Rebel Frank Pais, a young schoolteacher, was shot by cops in Santiago, 80,000 Cubans marched to his funeral and closed down the town for seven days with a general strike...