Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calling card gave the visitor's home address as Rolyat Castle, Accra, on West Africa's Gold Coast; his phone numbers, 337 and 406. He was Nii Kwabena Bonne III, Osu (chief) of Alata Manche, Oyoko-hene (headman) of Techeman, and general president of the Ga Football Association (Alata Manche, Techeman and Ga are states on West Africa's Gold Coast). Last week the Osu flew some 3,000 miles to Britain, leaving twelve wives behind in his Accra palace. He landed at London Airport wearing red and green robes, a red hat spangled with jewels...
...Italian immigrants, is a quiet, complex man of unquestioned integrity. As Foreign Minister, he led his country away from its stubborn opposition to the U.S. in hemispheric councils. At the U.N. he made a flashy try at reconciling the Western powers and Russia on the Berlin blockade. But at home, on la Señora's orders, he was rewarded with a campaign of insulting silence in the Peronista press and on the radio (TIME...
Last fortnight, puzzled by his Foreign Minister's and his Ambassador's widely divergent estimates of U.S. sentiment toward Argentina, Perón decided to find out who was right. Without bothering to consult the sensitive Bramuglia, he called Remorino home. In an early-morning session in the President's Casa Rosada office, the two men were asked to explain the difference in their views. Words passed, tempers rose. Bramuglia accused Remorino of plotting to get his job. Finally, his composure lost, the Foreign Minister used the classic Spanish obscenity about a man's mother. Then...
...convert's home in the mountain village of Melcamaya, Baptist Missionary Norman Dabbs was holding a Bible class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...
Dream in the Swamp. With more land than any other man in Paraguay and with more cattle than he can count (about 80,000, he guesses), Georgie Lohman had made a Texas ranch boy's dream come true 5,000 miles from home. In 1912, when Fight Promoter Tex Rickard advertised that he needed cowhands for a Paraguayan ranching venture, young Lohman went south. Rickard soon quit but Lohman, with a $1,000 stake from Rickard, stayed. He bought 600 head of cattle and 50,000 acres, and started ranching at Red Wells, no miles west of Concepci...