Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East and West rail headquarters keep in constant touch over train schedules, freight costs, tickets, border control. The West German shipping administration in Hamburg and the Soviet zone agency in Magdeburg deal with each other in keeping barge traffic flowing on the Elbe and the big Mittelland canal...
...unofficial contact with rebel leaders. Last March, French Union Councilor Georges Gorse, a former Socialist deputy married to an Egyptian, traveled to Cairo, ostensibly to discuss trade but actually to meet the members of the National Liberation Front in their Cairo headquarters. More recently, French representatives unofficially got in touch with the rebels' military leader, Mohammed Ben Bella, on one of his trips to Madrid. So far there has been no progress, since the National Liberation leaders insist the French must first recognize the "fact of Algerian nationality...
...Oakland, Calif, policeman, after watching Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley (TIME, May 14) last week: "If he did that in the street, we'd arrest him." On the other hand, the fans' dances are far from intimate-the wiggling 12-and 13-year-olds (and up) barely touch hands and appear oblivious of one another. Psychologists feel that rock 'n' roll's deepest appeal is to the teeners' need to belong; the results bear passing resemblance to Hitler mass meetings...
...nature. If the novel has a drawback, it stems from what might be called Colette's gland-directed theory of personality, a tendency to reduce all thought to desire, all spirit to sensation. But rarely has the self-contained world of adolescence burst its pod under the touch of so loving yet unsentimental and sharp-eyed a gardener...
...President and Fellows and the other directors of Harvard's alumni operation really are running a "racket," at least no one can accuse them of petty extortion. Not when they spend some $300,000 a year merely to keep in touch with the estimated 44,000 living alumni of Harvard College. This averages out to an expenditure of about $7 per year on each alumnus--a figure that seems extravagantly high until one reflects that last year College alumni presented their Alma Mater with gifts totalling $636,807, a total representing about $14.50 per man, or more than...