Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron fist of Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, Haiti's new boss, fell on the black republic last week, bringing temporary calm. After a weekend of arson and terror, the sullen followers of exiled provisional President Daniel Fignole went back to work. Kebreau jammed the jails with political prisoners...
...Moscow-sponsored drive to repatriate Argentine residents who were born behind the Iron Curtain-and their Argentine children as well-came to a sudden stop last week. The day before the French liner Bretagne was scheduled to sail from Buenos Aires with 80 repatriates, the Soviet embassy announced that all visas were canceled and no more would be issued. The embassy gave no reason. Argentines guessed that a wave of stay-where-you-are letters from disappointed earlier repatriates had soured Moscow on the idea of large-scale returns. Moreover, the campaign to persuade Argentines to return has frequently backfired...
...army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than a year ago, Bulganin and Khrushchev had again taken their road show outside the Iron Curtain...
...Behn's foreign success stood him less well at home after World War II. He guided I.T. & T. into domestic manufacturing, lost money. Sharply challenging his iron rule in 1947, a stockholders' group gradually forced Behn upstairs to board chairman. Last year at 74, Behn finally retired with I.T. & T. back at peak earning power (1956 sales: $501 million). Last week at 75, Global Businessman Behn died in Manhattan...
...traveler turned travel writer must also carry his knowledge lightly, rather like a tourist's folding iron, so that the press of history never completely smooths over the gaily rumpled wardrobe of fresh impressions. Six superior recent travel books are linked not only by knowledgeability and good writing but by their delightfully impressed wrinkles of the authors' personalities...