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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically illiterate in Arabic, feels more at home culturally in a French atmosphere than in an Islamic...
...that one letter was addressed to her absent husband, who had recently been enrolled in West Germany's fledgling army. She also noticed that the letter was daintily scented and that the handwriting was obviously feminine. After a minuscule struggle with her conscience, she ripped open the envelope, read...
...officer felt not so much indignant at East German trickery as he did despairing about West German women: "They didn't stop to think, didn't use their heads, or refuse to believe the letters out of confidence in their husbands. No. They opened them, read them and, instantly, they were convinced." Another officer had a different concern. "I hope," he mused thoughtfully, "that soldiers now won't get the idea of nonchalantly palming off real evidence of unfaithfulness as nothing but 'Communist propaganda...
...Minister Harold Macmillan and Laborite Leader Hugh Gaitskell-donned flowing robes and floppy velvet bonnets to receive honorary Doctorates of Civil Laws at the university's centuries-old Encaenia-the first time opposing party heads have ever been jointly honored there. In the Sheldonian Theater, a Public Orator read out the traditionally glowing, donnishly funny praises in Latin, described Macmillan (Greats, 1919) as an "imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante...
...Welcome Mr. De Sapio, Beloved Son of our Soil!" read the signs. Out of his long, black car stepped greying, carefully tailored Carmine De Sapio, Manhattan-born boss of Tammany Hall, on a visit to dusty, tiny (pop. 5,000) Monteforte Irpino, the Italian village his father left 50 years ago to migrate to the U.S. After viewing the site of the old family home (razed years ago), De Sapio, who speaks no Italian, walked through flower-and-confetti-strewn streets with the mayor, drew the hoopla reserved for rich visitors: a brass band, fireworks, cheering crowds. But with...