Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meet Lieut. Colonel McGowan. When France fell in June 1940, Ambassador Bullitt returned to the U.S., and Murphy became the top-ranking American in a France divided between the German occupation in the North and the Vichy French government in the South. Main aim of U.S. policy: to keep the German-Italian Axis out of strategic French North Africa. In December 1940, Murphy went to Algiers, negotiated a deal with the Vichy authorities to supply them with U.S. economic aid and U.S. "technical assistants," soon took charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy...
...Leopard & the Monkey. In 1951 the Chagga chose as their Paramount Chief Thomas Lenana Mlanga Marealle, 43, well-educated (Cambridge and the London School of Economics) grandson of a chief who ruled during the years be fore World War I when Tanganyika was a German protectorate. To his own people, Marealle II is known as Mangi Mkuu (Great Chief), to the whites of Tanganyika, he is King Tom. But by whatever name he is known, he is one of Africa's most remarkable statesmen. He runs his country through a hierarchy of elected and hereditary councils which are topped...
...Army's Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, Mullin was zestfully skewering a typical summer's assortment of subjects. In for a joshing came Heavyweights Floyd Patterson and Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, Texas. A potbellied, stein-hoisting Brave celebrated Milwaukee's National League lead in German dialect, and days later Mullin's cutlass-swinging Pittsburgh Pirate was walking the plank while a puzzled Brave looked...
...students use no Soviet sources when studying the Russian Revolution. Said one delegate: "In the City College of New York all we could find on the Soviet Union were two books-one by an American and one by a German. You can imagine the interpretation they gave." ¶ "Our Ph.D.s are better trained and have more knowledge." ¶ "We repeatedly asked to meet young workers, but nothing happened." ¶ Ninety-five percent of what Americans read about the Soviet Union is "distorted," although U.S. residents are clever enough to "read between the lines...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...