Word: orientator
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...over Europe, WHO teams were carrying out the largest immunization program in history in an effort to cut down the ravages of tuberculosis. So far, almost 10 million children have been given BCG vaccine. The campaign has begun in Africa, the Near East and the Orient; eventually, 40 to 50 million children will be inoculated...
Baruch cited examples. Suggestions had been made that MAP arms be diverted from France to Bao Dai in Indo-China. "Are we then to weaken Western Europe for some halfhearted and possibly ineffective action in the Orient?" In Germany, "sooner or later we must expect a showdown-since Germany cannot be expected to remain divided indefinitely. Are we pacing ourselves so that we will be ready for that showdown when it comes...
...friend and fellow Annapolisman, Robert Vogeler, the American businessman jailed as a spy by Communist Hungary (TIME, Feb. 27). Mrs. Vogeler gave him her husband's silver lighter-"to keep until you can give it back to Bob." Then Captain Karpe boarded the blue-and-gold Arlberg-Orient Express for Paris...
...Arlberg-Orient is one of the Continent's glamour trains, a storied track for international diplomats and international intrigue. Karpe had Compartment ll of the Bucharest sleeper. There were six other passengers in the car, including two friends, Secretary John Oliver Wright II, of the British legation in Bucharest, and Mrs. Wright. The Britons were accompanied by two countrymen-a king's messenger (or diplomatic courier) and his military guard...
...Army occupation police said that they found no specific evidence of "foul play." On the other hand, U.S. Intelligence officers thought that it was murder. By coincidence, the Arlberg-Orient had made an unscheduled half-hour stop, to permit traffic to clear, at the village of Goiling, just three minutes from Lueg tunnel. Passengers had opened doors and stepped down to stroll and smoke on both sides of the train...