Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia-"within the French Union," the French hoped, but even outside it if the Indo-Chinese insist. Paris gave Navarre nine more battalions of French soldiers (eleven less than he asked for, but a lot when measured against France's supply). Washington, kept in touch with the detailed development of the plan by Ambassador Donald Heath, joined in further planning. Its decision: an addition of $385 million to the $400 million in aid that was already scheduled for Indo-China in the next twelve months (TIME, Sept...
...know." So his career as a reporter was short. When Bernice Freeman gave up the weekly job and began devoting all her time to the Chronicle, George fell into the habit of calling her from time to time "just to say hello." Several days ago, Boles got in touch with Reporter Freeman once again, and this time he had more than a friendly "hello"; last week his message touched off one of the biggest murder stories San Francisco papers have had in years. The murderer: George Boles...
...Chicago news analyst with an expensive hobby, has been hearing some strange sounds lately out of Radio Moscow. Soviet propaganda. Turner reports, is getting a soft pedal. The time devoted to Russian music (especially Rimsky-Korsakov) is increasing, the announcers are sprouting Oxford accents, and a Big Ben touch has been added: "We pause now while you hear the clock in the Kremlin strike midnight." Turner does not claim to know the significance of these facts, but it is just the kind of information he has long wanted to give his listeners first hand. Last week he got his chance...
...Folksy Touch. As one of some 111,000 U.S. radio "hams" (his call letters: W9UG), Turner operates a mass-production listening post in a barn next to his suburban Northbrook home. With the help of a technician, three 35-foot directional antenna masts, eleven short-wave receivers (six are permanently tuned to catch Moscow, London, Paris, Seoul, Buenos Aires and Melbourne) and three tape recorders, he collects most of the short-wave signals aimed...
...those who like a cozy novel with a basically predictable outcome, there is Elizabeth Goudge's The Heart of the Family (Coward-McCann). Author Goudge has a highly developed bestseller touch, and her simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...