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...landed near the airfield. The Nazi was a cordial fellow named Anton ("Toni") Hafner, fated to become Germany's ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them to him, and his Colt pistol and his P-38's identification tag as well. As they parted, Widen invited Hafner to visit him in Philadelphia after the war. It was a scene worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Ace's Legacy | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...last week to form a shadow government dedicated to the liberation of their homeland. As flashbulbs popped in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, Manuel ("Tony") Varona, 52, coordinator of the middle-roading Revolutionary Democratic Front, and Manolo Ray, 36, chief of the farther left Revolutionary Movement of the People, shook hands and proclaimed the existence of the Cuban Revolutionary ouncil, in effect a government in exile, with a program and a president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Getting Ready | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...hope that he can solve the Algerian dilemma has protected him. In Algeria itself, he has been influenced by the growing evidence that the Moslems once thought riveted to France can no longer be counted on. are shifting their loyalties to the F.L.N. Last December's Moslem uprisings shook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: De Gaulle Is Willing | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...party during which she had been dancing in her stocking feet, she was suddenly overcome by melancholy and started out toward the Hudson. A friend calmly told her to put on her shoes first. She did, and after driving up and down the river most of the night, she shook off her gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Voice Like a Banner Flying: Leontyne Price | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...Cuba. What we need is more of it. Instead of announcing from the pulpit that the bowling league will meet at such and such a time, let's hear how the news may affect us personally." Ray Hollenbeck, regional sales manager of a drug firm in Kansas City, shook his head in wonderment: "Who would have ever thought that an African postal clerk named Lumumba would be a bigger crisis here at home than farm parity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People: Waiting & Watching | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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