Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Committee in 1937. He had tortured
people in order to wring confessions out of them. Even little children
had been tortured, said Khrushchev, as tears streamed down his face. To
get confessions, Stalin had promised some victims a dacha (country
cottage), but "the only dacha they saw was underground."
...good-looking ex-sergeant of the French army. The French believe he transmits his orders by radio to fighters in the Aures and Kabylie Mountains. Political chief for Algeria is 43-year-old Mohammed Khidir, 43, onetime French Deputy who got disgusted in 1946 and went underground, emerging only long enough to help Ben Bella rob the Oran post office of 3,000,000 francs. In both Morocco and Tunisia, Cairo's conspirators have been set back by the victory of the moderates, whom they seem to resent as bitterly as they do the French. Morocco's Cairo...
Nasser's Arab underground makes its appeal to a universal distaste for colonialism. But the struggle for freedom is one thing; campaigns of terror against the moderates who try to negotiate that freedom is another. Nasser's agitators have scored a certain success, but so far it is principally the all too easy success of destruction...
Boom & Bust. All of Inco's production came from its famed mines near Sudbury, Ont., where the company has drilled a 396-mile spiderweb of underground tunnels fanning out through five mines. Sudbury is to nickel what Minnesota's Mesabi Range is to iron, at one time supplied more than 80% of the free world's nickel. But the credit for making it pay off goes to a pair of hardheaded metalmen with the know-how and vision to turn nickel into one of the world's most important minerals: Inco's onetime President...
...first and second floors and for a great seal of the U.S. above the main entrance. The final result is a U-shaped building that will house the embassy staff in the center, USIS and consular offices in either wing, and shelter a formal garden court (over an underground garage). Londoners generally were enthusiastic. Wrote the architectural correspondent of London's Times: "A welcome acquisition to the rapidly changing face of Mayfair...