Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking, mounds of earth from newly burrowed bomb shelters line the streets. When British Chargé d'Affaires John Denson peered too closely into one such hole two weeks ago, a shouting crowd surrounded him for two hours and accused him of spying. The Foreign Ministry brushed aside his protests and suggested that perhaps he should stay home, where he belonged...
...Adolf Hitler. By late autumn, Wehrmacht planners had transformed the dream into battle orders. Hitler proposed to regain the offensive by deploying Germany's last reserves to smash through a lightly held sector of the Belgian front. His panzers would entrap as many as 30 U.S. and British divisions, capture the strategic supply port of Antwerp, and perhaps end the war in the West with a negotiated peace. Hitler thought of it as another Dunkirk and code-named it "Wacht am Rhein [Watch on the Rhine]." Allied archives would later refer to "the Battle of the Ardennes...
...subversion," Kenya's flamboyant, left-leaning Oginga Odinga was dismayed to find that he was not even allowed to read about the national elections. When "Double O" made a plea for newspaper privileges to President Jomo Kenyatta, his onetime pal replied: "When I was in detention, the British gave me nothing to read but the Bible. Let Odinga read that. It will do him good...
Married. David Ormsby Gore, 51, fifth Lord Harlech, former British Ambassador to the U.S.; and Pamela Colin, 33, stunning New York socialite and former London editor of Vogue magazine; he for the second time; in an Anglican ceremony; in London...
Died. Eric Portman, 66, commanding figure of British stage and screen for nearly half a century; in Cornwall, England. Broodingly handsome, Portman starred at the Old Vic as early as 1927, and during his career appeared in more than 100 British productions. Americans know him best for his Broadway roles in Separate Tables (1956), O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet (1958) and A Passage to India...