Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King's Fishing. One May afternoon in 1946 Victor Emmanuel, wearing white gloves, went fishing for sgómbro, a kind of mackerel, in the bay of Naples. For hours he sat erect on a camp chair, his short, spindly legs clear of the royal yacht's deck. Only one sgómbro bit. The political fishing was just as bad. The king's few remaining friends told him that the Italian people would vote against the monarchy...
Field Marshall Karl von Rundstedt (ret., by request), who once commanded German forces on the Western front (and began the Battle of the Bulge), got a ten-day Christmas leave from a P.W. camp in Wales to visit his ailing son back home...
...months, at the Army Chemical Warfare Services' Camp Detrick, Md., a team of bacteriologists, physicians, chemists, engineers, geneticists and biophysicists worked in secret. Their job: to find the best way to produce a rain of germy death for World War II. Unused, their discoveries are still on the shelf...
There was one bright spot for men of good will-including the scientists, who prefer to work on something less disastrous to mankind: much of what was learned at Camp Detrick about spreading airborne infections can be applied to curing peacetime ills. Their equipment is now being adapted for research on the common cold...
Died. Franz Xavier Schwarz, 72, pudgy bald treasurer of the Nazi Party from its 1925 beer-hall days to the finish; in a Regensburg, Germany, internment camp. Never famous himself, faithful Partyman Schwarz had one of the best-known mailboxes in Europe: Munich #33-where Nazis sent their party dues and contributions...