Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Franco's controlled press still had not told the Spanish people about the arrests last week; the news filtered through censorship from the anti-Franco underground. Among the group of at least 54 rounded up since mid-November were university professors and lawyers, students and skilled workers. Most were in their 305. Some came from Spain's top families. The common "crime": all were socialists opposed to Francisco Franco's dictatorship...
...served as valet to the British Ambassador to Turkey, and the distressing affair in The Netherlands when, for 20 months, the Nazis fed faked radio messages to London and captured 54 British agents-the British scored coups that helped make good the boast that Allied intelligence had won "the underground war" as well as the fighting...
...heavy-wallop weapons are the B-52 and B-47. Around the corner is a new generation: the B58 bomber, Atlas, Titan. But a few years beyond these, the Air Force sees a radically different weapons system of Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, ready for rapid launching from invulnerable underground nests (TIME, March 10). Under the pressure of the budget ceiling, Air Force brains are asking: Why sink most of our development and procurement funds over the next few years into B-58s and liquid-fuel ICBMs that will become obsolete as the Minuteman system builds up? Why not divert some...
...Exile. Changing his name to Willy Brandt and posing with fake Norwegian papers as a "student," he slipped back into Germany in 1936, worked with the anti-Nazi underground for five months before returning to Norway. Studied history at the University of Oslo, went to Spain during the Civil War as a correspondent for Scandinavian newspapers and representative of Norwegian relief...
...Communists last week packed every inch of floor and gallery space. Wildly they cheered a group of leaders who promised to "make pacts even with the devil" to achieve their goal: the end of Chile's democracy. Legalized since last August, the Communist Party had come up from underground to meet in the open for its Eleventh National Congress. Cried El Diario llustrado: "It is a shame that the Reds are allowed to gather in the Chilean sanctuary of Democracy...