Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress that had trampled on most of his recommendations finally stopped stomping and went home, President Eisenhower passed the word that this week he will start on his delayed post-adjournment vacation in Newport, R.I., where the Navy base people and townsfolk have proudly dressed ship for his arrival. Length of his stay will depend on the weather; if September brings Newport rain and fog, or hurricane weather, the President will pack up for warm, balmy Gettysburg in short order. Moreover, the Middle East situation weighed heavily on the President last week; if it deteriorates, he wants...
...Path. But somewhere along the twists of the post-Stalinist line. Kantor got off the path to East Germany's future. Like so many other satellite intellectuals, he had kicked off his snowshoes in the cultural thaw that followed Khrushchev's attack on Stalinist tyranny. In June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette suggested that the waiting correspondents could well sing the new ditty, I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Cabled the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech from Hong Kong: "In the opinion of the correspondents, the Dulles statement authorizing them to travel to China (TIME, Sept. 2) was deliberately and provocatively contrived to leave the Reds no choice but to refuse." At his regular news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. would "consider on its merits" any application by a Chinese newsman to enter the U.S. To some, this seemed...
Died. Harold Charles Gatty, 54, Australian airman, navigator on the 1931 globe-girdling, record-setting (8 days, 15 hrs., 51 mins.) flight of the Winnie Mae, which brought international fame to him and to one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post (who crashed and died with Will Rogers in 1935); of a heart attack; in Suva, Fiji Islands. Gatty developed, tested and taught a stargazing navigational system that guided (via his The Raft Book) many wartime downed flyers to safety. In recent years he bought a small island in the Fiji group, founded (1951) and operated the successful three-plane Fiji Airways...
...that crowned Monte Cassino than for the men who fought and died there. Author Majdalany concedes that there were probably no German troops within the monastery precincts, and that militarily the buildings were nearly as strong in ruins as they were intact, could serve equally well as an observation post. But he still feels that the bombing had to be done, if only because "in the cold desolation of winter and the fatiguing travail of unresolved battle, the spell of its monstrous eminence was complete and haunting . . . To the soldiers dying at its feet, the Monastery had itself become...