Word: former
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington looked for the hidden significance of the Dewey visit. As a former New York Governor, Tom Dewey could hardly come out formally against Rockefeller, his incumbent successor. But he is still the Vice President's longtime friend and sometime political cicerone. Best Washington analysis: Dewey's visit was an unofficial but undisguised blessing for Dick Nixon and his candidacy...
Hero of Tanganyika's advance, black and white agree, is 38-year-old Julius Nyerere, a cheerful, toothbrush-mustached former schoolteacher whose fight for independence has made him Tanganyika's-and East Africa's-foremost African leader. "Uhuru!" (Freedom), screamed 5,000 of his supporters as they lifted Nyerere to their shoulders and draped him with garlands of flowers after the Governor's announcement in the Legislative Council. All that night, green-shirted members of his Tanganyika African National Union danced in the streets and sang party hymns. For once, colonial officials did not need...
...Cuban revolution turned on one of its own fighting heroes last week. Major Huber Matos, former commander of Camagüey Province, stood accused before a rebel tribunal of what Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro called "the dirty business of anti-Communism." But Matos, who was jailed after he quit the army charging Red infiltration, managed to turn the force of the trial against Fidel Castro's leftist dictatorship...
...Miami University of Ohio, posed the question on behalf of 176 college and university administrators gathered for an Air Force-sponsored conference on R.O.T.C. problems at Maxwell A.F.B., Ala. Continued changes in policy have caused growing tension and occasional open hostility between the colleges and the junior service. Even former Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted to the educators that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program "suggests a considerable amount of lost motion," since only 4,000 officers are commissioned each year from the 100,000 undergraduates in the program...
...making of these pious toys became a specialized trade, and Naples was its center, with orders for cribs coming in from all over Europe. In the former royal Neapolitan palace at Caserta are preserved some 300 of the thousands of figurines that once composed Italy's most magnificent presepio, belonging to Bourbon King Charles III of Naples, who spent months arranging it each year in several rooms of the palace, while his queen and her ladies in waiting sewed silk and velvet costumes for the new figures. One of the most striking of the Neapolitan presepios, owned by Collector...