Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reinhard Gehlen, 52, is a slight, tight-lipped Prussian with a passion for anonymity. A Wehrmacht regular, Gehlen rose in World War II to become head of the "Enemy Army-East," the super-secret intelligence staff that evaluated the reports of a vast network of German agents ranging the Eastern front from Leningrad to the Caucasus. Because his realistic appraisals of Soviet strength clashed with Hitler's wish-thinking, Gehlen often drew the Führer's fire. Once, the story goes, Hitler read a Gehlen paper and exploded angrily: "What fool dug out this nonsense?" But events...
...mention of the name Gehlen is enough to make U.S. intelligence chiefs in Germany clam up and try to look blank. For years both Washington and Bonn refused to confirm that the organization existed. But since the Communists themselves took to blaming "Gehlen agents" for acts of sabotage throughout Eastern Europe, enough facts have leaked out to suggest that Büro Gehlen not only exists, but that it may be one of the best intelligence networks in the business...
...report on Algeria was no more encouraging. "The situation is not developing favorably," admitted his Minister of the Interior, Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, announcing that another 20,000 troops will be sent there as soon as they return from Indo-China. Next day the French smashed at rebel strongholds in eastern Algeria with fighter-bombers, parachutists and motorized infantry, while in the cities police made mass roundups...
...German routes, said U.S. air men, would hurt many U.S. carriers, with only a few lines reaping a real benefit in return, would eventually mean increased U.S. subsidies. Both Eastern and National Airlines carry heavy Latin American traffic between Miami and New York, traffic that Lufthansa would cut into with its through flights. Snapped National's Vice President Alexander Hardy: "If Lufthansa should get a through route, we'd be right back on subsidy." Both Pan American and Braniff, which already get a $14.5 million subsidy on their Latin American runs, would need still higher subsidies if Lufthansa...
...World Was Tiny." In The Collected Stories, the bulk of his too little-known work is fully translated for the first time and prefaced with a perceptive introduction by Critic Lionel Trilling. Like another Eastern Jewish writer, Sholom Aleichem, Babel was a folk artist of the ghetto. To Aleichem (TIME, April 25), the ghetto was as comforting as a mother's lap, and he could always smile through the tears; to Babel it was just a prison cell which he tramped with despairing irony. Laconic and deadpan in style, his autobiographical stories are nonetheless as anguished and personal...