Word: prewar
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...evoked from Khrushchev. In shrewd awareness of this effect, Khrushchev continued to denigrate Britain's Prime Minister. Chatting with newsmen as he awaited Macmillan's ar rival for a private conference with him, Khrushchev, with deliberate offensiveness, compared him with a man whose policies Macmillan, as a prewar M.P., had bitterly opposed-Neville Chamberlain. Said Khrushchev: "Chamberlain said he had come to terms with Hitler and there would be no war. Macmillan said he had talked with Adenauer and there would be no war." Face to face with Macmillan in a two-hour talk, Khrushchev was more courteous...
...British contingent is headed by Mrs. Tighe Nickalls, known familiarly as Tiger, a ten-year veteran of traipsing from feria to feria; Colonel Christopher Beckett, who started in the prewar days of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and thinks the art has declined since Manolete's time because now "the matadors want to live until tomorrow"; and Nora McAlpine, owner of London's Dorchester Hotel, who this year brought her 16-year-old daughter to the fights...
When classes are over, Michelangeli, a powerful, strapping man whose large hands can dominate a steering wheel as readily as a keyboard, climbs into his Lancia and scorches the road to his sea side summer home. The pianist drove in the prewar Mille Miglia three times, won once, but now has quit racing, officially at least. (He boasts that he recently forced his Ferrari to 186 m.p.h...
...should be nearly as strong as the crew that dominated the 1956 games in Melbourne (8 of 13 gold medals for men and women combined). And then there are the Japanese, who dominated Olympic men's swimming in the 1930s and are only now beginning to regain their prewar form with a crack team. In prospect is a glorious Roman water carnival...
Among the more successful teams: ¶Vienna-born Walter Surovy was a matinee idol in prewar Prague when he met Bronx-born Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, then barely launched on her singing career. They were married in 1939, and at war's end. after an unsuccessful fling at Hollywood, Surovy settled down to the fulltime business of making Rise into a "national celebrity." He sent her to top Hollywood and Paris dress designers, converted her from a lank-haired brunette into a curly blonde, insisted that she take dancing lessons at the M-G-M studios...