Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkans buzzed with ominous reports that Russia was massing troops on the Yugoslav border, Stalin's archfoe, Marshal Tito, was enjoying a quiet holiday at his island stronghold of Brioni, in the upper Adriatic. There he received LIFE Photographer John Phillips, who had covered Tito and his partisans during the war. Phillips cabled...
...Bellolampo raid caused shrieks of rage in the Italian press. Communist papers featured a Tass dispatch calling Giuliano the tool of imperialistic foreign elements who wished to make the island a base for military operations. Minister of Interior Mario Scelba flew to Palermo and cleaned out the whole Montelepre police command. Himself a Sicilian, Scelba began a wholesale transfer from Montelepre of native Sicilians...
...which launched such welfare-state schemes as baby bonuses, government grain-marketing and producer subsidies. St. Laurent has already indicated he may not. He once said publicly that "no government of which I am a member will ever subsidize housing." During the election, when a group of Prince Edward Island fish canners came to ask for a subsidy, St. Laurent shocked his political advisers by turning them down flat. Said he: "I have no intention of using public funds to buy up fish...
...When Hitler was about to visit Cologne in 1933, his fanatic followers draped the great Rhine bridge with huge swastikas. Adenauer ordered his police to tear them down. Goring promptly ordered Adenauer's discharge from office and banishment from Cologne. Adenauer found asylum in a convent on an island down the Rhine...
Skating Cinemactress Sonja Henie and Socialite-Aviator Winthrop Gardiner Jr. took off in his brand-new plane for a Long Island weekend, leaving a slipstream of elopement rumors. Headlined New York's Daily News: SONJA...