Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whitewashed mud and thatch huts outside Port-au-Prince's fashionable suburb of Pétionville, he is usually a raffish, cotton-stuffed fellow in sport jacket with a pink boutonniere, a big cigar and harlequin glasses; in remote Basse Guinaudée (pop. 300) on the southern peninsula, he is a rustic with a ragged face and sisal beard...
Died. Clark Lee, 46, war correspondent and author (They Call It Pacific, One Last Look Around), who escaped from Corregidor, covered the Pacific war from start to finish before turning free lance and settling down on Monterey peninsula with his wealthy wife, Hawaiian Princess Liliuokalani Kawananakoa (granddaughter of the late Queen Liliuokalani); of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif...
Ingalls' favorite teaching job is History 186, The History of Modern India. He tries to see the troubled peninsula, as few Westerners do, from an Indian point of view. "Most people think important to her is to stay out. The antithesis of communism and Democracy is not applicable to India. Her past doesn't presuppose either of them...Indian society is like a spring top, a little above, and some below, but the thickness of the thing comes in the middle...
...Taylor slipped through German lines into Rome for armistice negotiations with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. For 24 hours, wearing a U.S. uniform, he went about his mission in Rome under the noses of the Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer to fight France in World War II. Made his second combat jump with the 101st when it invaded Holland, where Taylor was wounded. Was back in Washington on a special mission when his 101st was surrounded...
Second, a U.N. line might be established across the Korean peninsula's narrow waist (some 90 miles wide). Behind such a line would lie the present Red capital, Pyongyang, and some two-thirds of Korea, with four-fifths of its population...