Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite his two-to-one controlling majority in Parliament, Kifcame Nkrumah still seemed convinced that only stern measures could weld all the tribal nations of Ghana into a unified country. Evidently shaken by last summer's anti-government demonstrations in Kumasi arid Accra, Nkrumah appointed as his Interior Minister in charge of immigration and police a squat, hoarse-voiced and flamboyant party tough named Krobo Edusei...
Having fled from the U.S. to Mexico, then from Mexico to Czechoslovakia on Paraguayan passports, wealthy Alfred K. Stern, 59, and his wife Martha Dodd Stern, 48, let a Prague press conference know they were in no hurry to return to the U.S. and explain their activities as professional Communist spies, announced that they would soon visit East Germany, Bulgaria, Communist China. Safe (so far) behind the Iron Curtain, the daughter of onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, once famed for painting the town red at home and abroad, painted a picture of her own country...
...countrymen. His propagandists boasted that Russia had fired the world's first successful intercontinental ballistic missile. His diplomats rejected President Eisenhower's disarmament plan on the ground that peace-loving Russia had already called for a ban on nuclear war. And in Moscow his press printed three stern private speeches delivered about the time of Khrushchev's recent power grab, all showing the Soviet boss talking and acting more and more like the Stalin he affects to deplore...
Alfred and Martha Stern, ducking extradition to the U.S. for grand-jury questioning about their activities as Communist spies, were gone from their high-walled, Spanish-colonial retreat in Mexico City (TIME, Sept. 2). But still in Mexico is a thriving colony of wealthy expatriates representing every shade in the Communist spectrum, from parlor pink to Moscow...
Passed over for promotion to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve because stern-minded Senator Margaret Chase Smith said he had not spent enough time actively being a colonel (TIME, Sept. 2), shambling Cinema Good Guy Jimmy Stewart last week got a star anyway, and with it a title requiring no active duty at all: honorary sheriff of Elko County, Nev. (14,000 people, twelve crap joints...