Word: states
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...furor that began four months ago when four U.S. sergeants stationed at Izmir were arrested on charges of currency black-marketing, and two in turn accused Turkish cops of torturing them (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), drags on in the slow-moving Turkish courts. While the State Department, in deference to its NATO partner, tried to hush up the whole affair, NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad dispatched from Paris a personal investigating team headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, a onetime top FBIman, who was commissioned an Air Force Reserve colonel in 1948 to do police work. Carroll...
...Rosenthal, who was recently expelled from Poland (TIME, Nov. 23) for "probing" too deeply into Polish affairs and was now free to report what he had not felt free to file at the time. At first, Monat's defection to the U.S. was flatly denied by the State Department, then officially confirmed...
...threats finally brought Livingston Merchant, top U.S. State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
...Houston, 21, Ohio State; 6 ft. 2 in., 216 lbs. Major: education and physical education. Excerpts from pro scouting reports: "Can make it with the pros as offensive or defensive end. Pound for pound, he may be the finest college football player in the country today...
Tackle: Dan Lanphear, 21, Wisconsin; 6 ft. 2 in., 222 lbs. Major: economics. "In the Ohio State game, he hit a couple of guys so hard they had to be helped off the field. Could be a great defensive end for the pros...