Word: janning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asylum issue involves about 40 associates of ousted President Fulgencio Batista, the dictator who took refuge in Latin-American embassies in Havana when the Batista government fell Jan...
That was the opposite slant from the Christian Democratic Socialist government of Amintore Fanfani who resigned as premier Jan. 26 under fire from both wings of his shaky coalition...
...Human Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...Methodist, I am shocked by the committee known as the P.O.A.U. [Jan. 19]. Patron saints of the armed forces are (and were) members of the early Christian church -not solely Catholic saints but saints of all Christians, Protestants as well as Roman Catholics...
Died. Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, 71 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), rum-swigging onetime U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate, who landed in Haiti in 1927 during the long (1915-34) Marine occupation, stayed on when the troops went home, as director of the country's only insane asylum, took up the study of voodoo, became a houngan (priest) and internationally famed explicator of the jungle rites; of a heart attack; at his wattled hut near Port-au-Prince...