Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong nerves are now being put to the test by Russia. Correspondents in Rome and Cairo filed stories on the weird assault on the former Aga Khan's widow. In Ghana, a reporter...
...peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live, and we have strong nerves...
...whose nerves must remain steady if West Berlin's 2,200,000 people are to remain free is Mayor Willy Brandt, a youngish Socialist with a lifetime of adventure already behind...
BERLIN, Nov. 28--Mayor Willy Brandt today won firm backing from Western leaders in his fight against the Soviet attempt to turn West Berlin into an unarmed neutral city...
Diplomatic reports pouring into West Berlin indicated the United States, Britain and France would reject the Soviet maneuver. U.S. congressmen visiting the isolated city assured the fighting mayor staunch U.S. support...