Word: central
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...meticulous Alice Little, it turned out, had brought home more than sea shells and memories. Early in World War II, U.S. Naval Intelligence heard that she had lived in the west central Pacific, interviewed her. To the Navy's delight, Miss Little rooted out other items in her collections-maps, charts and the journals she carefully kept for the board of missions on trips around her islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep...
Silence & Her Sister. Once invested as Premier, De Gaulle had three immediate objectives: to bring the army back under control of the central government, to win approval of a constitution that would give France a strong executive, to come to terms with the French colonies' desire for independence without sacrificing a French relationship with them. To achieve these goals, he proceeded to employ his resources (which now included unchallenged legitimacy) according to the rules he had laid down in The Sword's Edge?"economy of force, the necessity of advancing in strength (and, hence, by stages or bounds), surprise...
Chain of Command. In another pertinent step, the Supreme Soviet last week ratified the appointment of Central Committee Personnel Chief Aleksander Nikolaevich Shelepin, 40, as the Soviet Union's top cop, succeeding the bloodstained General Ivan Serov (TIME, Dec. 22). A youthful political commissar in the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish war, Shelepin rose through the Young Communist organization and served as its secretary from 1952 until he joined Khrushchev's headquarters staff last year. Too young to have been active in the police terrorist years of Yezhov and Beria, Shelepin has not yet acquired the hateful public reputation...
...plains of Las Villas province the rebels claimed the capture of several more small towns. The government gave credence to their claims by shaking up the army command, ordering in more reinforcements and warning the civilian population that it intends to bomb out any rebel attempt to hold the central province. Reports of heavy fighting came out of Fomento. near the Sierra del Escambray. The rebels held Sancti Spiritus (pop. 60,000) for a night, drove the army from Caibarién. a north coast sugar port, and closed in on the Las Villas capital of Santa Clara...
When Hitler closed the Bauhaus in 1933. Feininger at last came home to Manhattan, to sail his model boats on the pond in Central Park as he had as a boy, and to paint in the midst of war the most joyful canvases of his career. The school-of-Paris cubism he brought back with him helped free his individual genius: he took cubism out of doors, to church and to the beach, using it to animate a vista with the intricate counterpoint of a Bach fugue. Regatta, which seems as much like the gates of paradise as Pink...