Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroiter blinked at the big red lettering on the card: EN CAS D'ACCIDENT. After a blank for his name & address: Citoyen américain, je désire être transporté d'urgence à I'hôpital américain de Paris. The visitor filled in his name and hotel address, tucked the card into his wallet, and stepped briskly out into the warm, exciting Paris night to take his chances with wine, women and the world's wildest motorists. The Detroiter, and thousands like him, felt a bit more secure just...
...provocation" which is "imperiling" the truce talks (in secret session last week and reported to be going fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed the Yalu and attacked the great Manchurian air base at Antung (a possible real target in the future...
Military men in the uniforms of half a dozen different nations mingled with proud mothers and officials of France's Ministry of Education one day last week on the lawn of the old chateau of St. Germain-en-Laye, twelve miles northwest of Paris. A French military band finished the slow beat of Swanee River and swung into the lilting rhythm of Marching Through Georgia. It was the first "Commencement Day" for the international school set up this year for the children of SHAPE Village...
...Journal: "He was not wounded in action, nor did he suffer a burned and broken foot in an airplane accident on June 22, 1943, as he has said. Instead he was hurt in a hilarious 'shellback' initiation on that date. It occurred when a Navy transport en route to combat areas but without a single dangerous alert during its entire voyage was the scene of the riotous gaiety traditional to crossing the equator...
...learned that denouncing Perón only makes him more popular at home. More recently it has learned that sending one businessman-ambassador after another, tempting Perón with the illusion that he can still swing a bail-out deal with the U.S., is worse than useless. En route now to Buenos Aires is a different kind of ambassador, a capable but little-known careerman who is unlikely either to sass or salute a defiant neighbor. Even Perón should be able to grasp that Albert Nufer, 57, a longtime State Department deskman whose only previous ambassadorial assignment...