Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solved the problem of Communist terrorism. A fortnight ago an American police adviser was gunned down in broad daylight on a main road near the sea resort of Cap Saint-Jacques; he was one of the 800 soldiers and civilians who fall to the Communist terrorists every month in South Viet Nam. Three weeks ago emboldened Viet Minh guerrillas struck into South Viet Nam by way of chaotic Laos, engaged Diem's army in pitched fighting for a week. Pleading the Communist threat, Diem has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press, and political re-education camps that...
Last year Swedish Archaeologist Einar Gjerstad and Professor Antonio M. Colini, Rome's Director of Museums and Archaeological Excavations, started digging in a pit near a wall of the medieval church of St. Homobonus, patron saint of tailors. Penetrating 20 ft. down, they came to a layer of rubbly soil which they recognized as the earth-fill foundation of Roman temples of Mater Mututa, goddess of childbirth, and Fortuna, protectress of women who have been married only once. In this hallowed ground they found twelve fragments of dark brown pottery decorated with incised dots and geometrical figures...
...Saint-John Perse is the pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 73, a diplomat who wrote poetry in secret after his day's work at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, where he served for years as Secretary-General of the French Foreign Ministry. ''Is this true, Leger, that, as people say, you write poetry in your spare time?" asked Aristide Briand of his faithful assistant. "It is." replied the writer firmly, "an imposture...
...Washington phone book, he remained plain "Alexis Leger." When a publisher requested poems for an anthology, he replied: "My name does not belong to letters." Disagreeing, the Swedish Academy last week awarded Saint-John Perse the 1960 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...poetry lover named Dag Hammarskjold, who, as a member of the Nobel jury for literature, reportedly nominated Saint-John Perse, might have won a Nobel Prize of his own but for the fate of the calendar. For his work in the Congo as U.N. Secretary-General, Hammarskjold was an obvious candidate for the 1960 Peace award. But the Nobel deadline for nominations is Jan. 31. long before the Congo emergency appeared. With Hammarskjold ruled out on this technicality (and perhaps with an eye toward avoiding controversy with Hammarskjold's vociferous detractor, Nikita Khrushchev), the committee decided to make...