Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BERTWIN L. FREY Messiah Lutheran Church Fairview Park, Ohio
...keep our records straight, and taint not my name. John Sack, author of Report from Practically Nowhere and my son, is 28 as of now, not 30 as you said [March 16]. I was married 30 years ago this month. What will my friends say? TRACY L. SACK...
...Other U.S. officers on the famed secret submarine trip: Colonel (later Brigadier General) Archelaus L. Hamblen, shipping and supply expert; Captain (now Admiral) Jerauld Wright, Navy liaison man on Torch, now commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Colonel Julius C. Holmes, head of Torch's Civil Affairs branch, now the Secretary of State's special assistant for NATO. General Clark, retired, is president of The Citadel...
Maurice Van Hemelrijck, 57, a man with a flair for dramatic decisions, is Belgium's Minister for the Congo-and hopes very much to be the last one. Long before the bloody Léopoldville riots last January, he had warned his government that unless it began giving the Congo democracy and some sort of independence, it would face "catastrophe" and lose the colony altogether. When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops...
...Hemelrijck may have concluded from the British example that locking up nationalists seldom does much good. But his gamble did have its dangers. In Léopoldville last week, Kasavubu's overeager followers, thinking that their leader had been invited to negotiate, were already laying plans for a seven-day celebration as soon as independence is announced. And Kasavubu himself, a deceptively mild-looking man who dreams of rebuilding the fabled 14th century Kingdom of the Congo, broadly hinted that his people would not wait forever. "I love visiting Belgium," he said. "But it must...