Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient black says "Freedom Now"; the white says "Later." A few short years ago there was only one timetable - and it said "Never." For a thoughtful look at the timetable change, see FOREIGN NEWS, Restless Africa...
France Isolated. By far the most important stop on the President's itinerary, because of the nature of the problems to be resolved, was France. De Gaulle, in seclusion last week at his home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, was planning long hours of talk alone with Eisenhower. Not since De Gaulle came to power 15 months ago, to almost universal cheers inside and outside France, had he found himself so isolated. France had either antagonized or felt itself wronged by all its neighbors and allies. U.S. jets have had to abandon their French NATO bases...
Meanwhile, Wood and his firemen went into the basement tank room, tried to stop the leak with a new flange. When the air cylinders for their masks were empty and they came up to the street to change them, their faces and necks showed bright red acid burns; 38 were affected, one had to be hospitalized. Because aqua regia attacks pipes and pumps so avidly, it took three days to find resistant equipment to load it into a tank truck for neutralization and disposal in New Jersey...
Some English teachers labor under the illusion that college students speak English. Dr. Lalia Phipps Boone of the University of Florida knows better: she keeps her ears open outside the classroom. In American Speech she records the exotic gab used by her students when they stop talking for professorial consumption...
...more explosive ground now, she gets so chummy with the Gestapo that they try to set her to spying out the racial history of one of her new friends, a suspected Jewess. The trap, of course, snaps on Eva herself. The next stop is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nesting at the end of the line for Eva are true love and a family in Israel. From the moment she bounces into view, no reader can doubt that her ending will be upbeat...