Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four and the U.N., in favor of direct dealings with Moscow. Khrushchev had been almost indifferent-as well as rude-to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Now, in return for his welcome to Nixon, Nikita unabashedly hoped to get an invitation to the U.S. And judging from the sounds emerging from Washington-and from Nixon himself in Moscow (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he was likely in due course...
Phony Payoff. To pass the British counterfeits, the Nazis installed a confederate in an Austrian castle, had him pass the bills in neutral countries in return for a one-third share of the profits. Gestapo informers, who insisted on hard currency for their work outside Germany, also got paid off in the phony pounds. Among those doublecrossed: the Italians who found out where Mussolini was held before his rescue by Paratrooper Otto Skorzeny; the famous valet "Cicero" (real name: Eliaza Bazna), who stole secrets from the safe of the British Ambassador to Turkey. Ultimately, some of the counterfeit notes turned...
...Preaching passive resistance against the French, Andre Matswa persuaded his followers not to pay taxes, accept identity cards or cultivate peanuts as ordered by the French. He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend, he was buried in a great cement hole, his arms and legs tied with cables, but broke free and got away, now lives in a royal palace in Paris. They call him Jesus Matswa, cherish photomontages that...
...next three months he will awaken at 4 a.m., spend mornings begging food, afternoons in meditation. He will try to observe 228 commandments and confess each failure, no matter how small (example: inadvertently killing an insect). And when the 90 days are over, he will return to his worldly occupation -respected and, he hopes, revitalized for the daily toil in the world of appearances...
Last week Leo Arkfeld was making some last flights to each of the outlying missions, getting set to go to Rome and then go home on leave. But he plans to return to New Guinea, where there is still "something to do"-help prepare the natives for independence. Mission success notwithstanding, most of New Guinea's tribes are still warlike, and some even practice cannibalism. In 1957 the government caught four young cannibals after their tribe had defeated another (with axes and knives made of human bones) and feasted on the losers. Police handed the cannibals over...