Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second summons came late in July-this time from the security section of the Ministry of Interior. En route I picked up two American Embassy officials for protection. The Egyptian Interior official, somewhat confused by my 'protection,' kept bouncing out of his office for quick hallway briefings during the questioning. At length, he asked sharply: 'TIME and LIFE are banned in Egypt. Why are you here?' I corrected him: TIME was banned; LIFE was not. He disappeared again, returned and said: 'That...
...third summons arrived August 4. This time we went to Interior's Passport Section. As my protectors and I arrived at the office of a Captain Sabry, one of them said: 'I was spit on only once climbing the stairs ; I guess that's par for the course.' With a face-cracking smile the captain demanded my passport, flipped through it and said: 'Your residence visa has expired.' I pointed out that it had just been renewed. Said he : 'I am cancelling it. You will get a temporary visa. You will leave Egypt...
...decided that his duty to Arsolians lay with that party whose avowed program was to spur Demo-Christians to speed up reform: Giuseppe Saragat's anti-Communist Socialists. Within a few days he had founded a local Socialist Party section. Arsolians rushed to join. Socialism gave them the right to call Vittorio "Comrade," rather than "Excellency." So ingrained is their respect for the Massimos, however, that many compromised (as Socialists will) and called Vittorio Compagno Eccellenza-Comrade Excellency...
...Based on an extensive cross-section survey of TIME'S 1,500,000 women readers...
Last week the Times crossed him up by one day. What the mother paper did on Monday was to blossom out in a new look, with new typography, bigger departments of opinion and women's news, and a green-colored sports section. But Tuesday noon, Publisher Norman Chandler called staffers to his fifth-floor auditorium, solemnly told them: "The news is too exciting to be withheld from you any longer . . . The Times is to sponsor a new newspaper. It will appear in the fall . . . and will be housed in our new annex. If anybody asks you about this, tell...