Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Amman. Plump, turbaned little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan was indeed the center of Arab hopes. The danger of defeat, which sent Arab refugees scuttling from Palestine, sent Arab politicians to Abdullah in Amman. Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs after a visit last week: "Amman has become an Oriental boom town, crowded by Arab politicians, foreign diplomats and correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars...
...rise of Hitler, Germans in Bavaria and Hesse (U.S. zone) last week went to the polls to elect local officials. Principal results: 1) the Communists, who had made the most active campaign, lost even more ground, getting only 2.8% of the Bavarian total, and 7.9% in Hesse; 2) the center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right as I could get." Said a Wiesbaden Hausfrau...
...right away, or a new format, or an entirely different typography . . . There will be many changes, but they will be gradual . . . aimed at a full coverage of news and an independent editorial policy." Translated Bart Crum: "We are absolutely uncommitted to anybody." But the policy will be left of center...
Once Leo Durocher had a horse playing center field for Brooklyn. Today history may repeat itself...
...bill appropriating funds for the center passed the House last fall, but objections raised by the City of Cambridge to a location near the Cottage Farm Bridge as well as bids from Philadelphia for the settlement of the Institute there have snarled the measure in the Senate Armed Services Committee...