Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what passed through Mr. Chamberlain's mind in this fleeting negotiation, which he conducted entirely alone without, so far as I am aware, warning anyone in advance. One thing is certain. The subsequent [Nazi] seizure of Prague was a bitter blow to Mr. Chamberlain . . . Whenever Hitler's name was mentioned after March 17, the Prime Minister looked as if he had swallowed a bad oyster...
...Somoza name was hard to live down, and three months ago, two of Tacho's old enemies-Gynecologist Enrique Lacayo Farfan and Pedro Joaquin Chamarro, editor-owner of Managua's La Prensa-began marshaling their forces...
Bare-Breasted Boldness. With Bell's approval, Editor Grosvenor drew a bead on the world's armchair explorers. In the name of geography he exposed the female breast, printed a 1903 study of two tawny Tagbanua belles eclipsed only to the waist by a stand of Philippine rice. Such displays became Geographic fixtures. He expanded geographical boundaries to embrace first-person travelogues from Tahiti, Siberia and the Yukon, kite construction (they were Bell's kites), the sex life of the aborigines, and skin tattoos. In 1905 he came up to a deadline with an eleven-page hole...
Nothing to Say. To stay abreast of the missile era, the Magazine has added to its list of contributors many a starlit name from the ranks of space engineers, e.g., Hugh Dryden and Heinz Haber, remapped the firmament in its monumental Sky Atlas (price: about $1,200), even peddled (for $2) a Sputnik-tracing kit for the edification of backyard satellite hunters. But it remains solidly indentured to the principles laid down by Gilbert Grosvenor years ago, still segregates advertising and editorial copy, runs no liquor, tobacco or real-estate ads, hustles no lagging subscriber, still refuses to say anything...
Besides his towel-and-sheet empire-13 textile mills in the Carolinas alone-Charles A. Cannon, 66, also owns the North Carolina city of Kannapolis (pop. 30,000). His father founded it in 1906 and gave it its name, a loose derivative of his own. Kannapolis has no mayor, city manager, city council, charter or legal existence. As president of the Cannon Mills Co., vested proprietor of Kannapolis, Charles Cannon presides over trash collection, fire fighting and street maintenance, collects rent from 1,700 homes, subsidizes the police department and owns most municipal real estate, including the downtown business district...