Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workhorse officer who planned Allied landings in North Africa in 1942, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, organized Defense Department's NATO rearmament program (1948-50), commanded U.N. forces in the Far East (1955-57), was marked for the top job years ago. Yet his name was always widely met with a standard response...
...Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah is "Showboy," and Guineans pay tribute to the strength of their President Sekou Toure by calling him "Elephant." But on the Ivory Coast (which lies between Ghana and Guinea, and wants no part of their merger), crowds have tagged their own strongman with the simple name of "Vive." The name could not be more apt: few men in the kaleidoscopic politics of French Africa have shown a greater talent for survival than 53-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny...
...girls of the village of Nombre de Dios (Name of God) strolled toward the azure Caribbean one day last week, arm in arm with the Cuban invaders who had come to Panama to overthrow the democratic government of President Ernesto de la Guardia. As the landing craft taking them off to jail in Panama City backed off the beach, Expedition Commander Cesar Vega and his 83 men (plus a 24-year-old Cuban girl) broke into a song that Castro's rebels used to sing in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. The girls of Nombre...
...cause pumpers who somehow always seem to end up at New York fund-raising rallies. Somewhere in between lies a substantial but generally silent group of moderates. Among these, few make their presence more manifest than the Atlanta Constitution's Cartoonist Clifford H. Baldowski, who draws under the name of "Baldy...
...reason have earned him the hatred of the traditionalists, who sometimes send back his cartoons with the faces blacked in, or scrawled: "You are a Negro, aren't you, Mr. Baldy?" Recently, a last-ditch racist type, learning for the first time that Baldy's full name was Baldowski, wrote angrily: "I always wondered why you were such a Nigger lover. Now I know. You're one of those foreigners." As a matter of fact, Moderate Baldy was born in Augusta...