Word: spa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adolf Hitler rejected an invitation to attend a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...
...merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later in a rematch, after which Turpin wound up wrestling for $30 a night; by his own hand (pistol); in Leamington Spa, England...
...Best People. Always popular with Mexicans-former President Miguel Alemán has a palatial villa and is a faithful weekender-the resort is becoming the new sun spa for the international big rich and their attendant swingers, and the easygoing oldtimers are uneasily sniffing winds of change in Acapulco's famous breezes...
...looked like the same story all over again. Jimmy was leading the Dutch Grand Prix when he lost three of his five gears. At Monaco he was running second when his engine blew up. Before the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, mechanics worked all night to install a new engine and gearbox in Clark's Lotus. Then next day Jimmy worked his way into the lead on the first lap-and ran away with the race for his first Grand Prix victory. Before the year was out, he had won two more, heard himself hailed as "the new Stirling...
...South Africa: wearing a corset to ease the pain from a slipped disk in his back (souvenir of an Alpine snowball fight), he became the first man ever to top 100 m.p.h. on East London's tricky, twisting track, coasted home a comfortable 31 sec. in front. At Spa last month, thunderstorms made the trip a little dicier than Jim expected ("It was damn dangerous out there"), but he still scored his fourth-straight victory in the Belgian Grand Prix and left the rest of the field strung out 1½ miles behind...