Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says France's Robert Marjolin, "am an international official." He is so international, in fact, that his own countrymen have accused him, behind their hands, of being more European than French. As permanent secretary general (i.e., top man) of OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation), boyish, 37-year-old Robert Marjolin is in the first rank of a new group of civil servants, whose master is not a state but the idea of international cooperation. Last week he arrived in Washington with 18 French, British, Dutch, Belgian and Austrian aides to help ECA put its case to the 81st...
...ventured to guess how the voting would go. Kashmir's popular Premier, Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, is for union with India. For religious as well as economic reasons, many of his countrymen (85% Mohammedan) would vote for Pakistan. Said a Kashmiri village elder: "In the old days, one candidate offered us a ride to the voting place, a second offered us money. Then, even so, we voted for the third...
Ever since handsome young Hungarian-born Conductor Antal Dorati went to Dallas four years ago, he has labored to make his new countrymen conscious of one of his old: the late great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok. Season after season he pounded Bartok at Dallas-and Dallas music lovers had almost adopted Bartok as their own. Dorati would be leaving (to take Dimitri Mitropoulos' podium in Minneapolis next season-), but he had promised himself to do something that people would remember-and connect with the Dallas Symphony. He succeeded. On NBC's Orchestras of the Nation broadcast last week...
...wage earners, a Canadian Pacific telegrapher named Alex Nudelman summed up the mood of his 12½ million countrymen: "We've been so used to good times, it's this coming back to normal that hurts. I'm no pessimist, but I don't think that 1949 is going...
There was just enough time before dark for return to Tsaolaochi. On the way back we stopped for a village funeral. Lined against the twilight in an empty paddyfield stood half a dozen countrymen around a high-ended Chinese coffin. The chief mourners wore white headbands of grief. They were burying their mother, Chang Hu-shih, an old woman...