Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter who met the boat train to Paris spotted Estes Kefauver. on his way to Switzerland, traveling with Perle Mesta, who was returning to her job as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Had they talked politics? "Oh, no," said Madame Minister, "I'm in the State Department. We don't talk politics...
...fire to Alexandria's textile mills (TIME, Aug. 25), found him guilty of treason. Sentence: death by hanging. Britain, apparently convinced that Naguib had come to stay, 1) lifted its 10-month-old embargo on the export of military equipment to Egypt, 2) invited Egyptian cadets to train in British military academies...
...Duke of Windsor, after a bout of stomach trouble in Italy (with diagnoses ranging from gastroenteritis to ulcers), arrived in Paris with another ailment: an attack of lumbago so severe that the duchess and a plainclothesman had to help him off the train and into a waiting limousine, where he sat beside the chauffeur to get more leg room...
Nixon's main theme will be the main Republican theme: the need for a change. He will ask Americans to stop traveling the Democrats' route, and get on another train where the engineer has a firmer grip on the throttle, clearer ideas of where he is going...
...called his first press conference since taking over from Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was firm about one thing: the soldiers under his international command should all be drafted for two years. "The reason is . . . that in this day of numerous and complex weapons, it takes approximately a year to train an individual in standard arms," he said. "Just when a state stands a chance of regaining some of its investment on the soldier, it loses...