Word: val
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough. Oberg did. In the next two years as head of the Nazi security police in France, Oberg and his eagle-beaked adjutant, SS Colonel Helmuth Knochen, were responsible for the execution of more than 1,000 French hostages, the execution of underground resistance fighters at Mont Valérien and at the Cascade in Paris' beautiful park, the Bois de Boulogne, the extermination of hundreds of the Maquis, the destruction of the old port of Marseille, the deportation of the faculty of the University of Strasbourg, and the deportation from France of 120,000 Jews...
...Much Time? The committee rejected blast shelters because of their great expense, and because a sudden attack would leave little time for people to get to safety. This meant turning down a program advanced by onetime Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, who startled the Administration early this year by announcing that civilian salvation lay in $34 billion-plus worth of heavy, blastproof bomb shelters. Some authorities, like Scientist Edward Teller (TIME, Jan. 21), even envisaged a vast underground network where men could survive for an indefinite time after an attack. Civil Defense Administrator Leo Hoegh (who replaced Peterson last July...
...Copenhagen, Danish-descended Val Peterson, new U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and onetime federal Civil Defense administrator, collected a plaque sent to him by citizens of Dannebrog, Neb., pleased bike-loving Danes by pedaling jauntily about on a two-wheeler...
...which gave the narrowest possible meaning to the Supreme Court's Watkins decision: Miller, while before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee, had not protested the pertinence of a question about Communist writers he had known. ¶The National Association of Attorneys General, holding a convention in Sun Val ley, Idaho, beat down attempts to criticize the Supreme Court by resolution, but only after the association's president. New Hampshire's Attorney General Louis Wyman (whose anti-subversive activities had just been rebuked by the Supreme Court in the case of sometime University of New Hampshire Lecturer...
...Prize at the Lugano IV International, the cash was probably as welcome as the credit. Though "delighted by the award," Winner Nicholson was not willing to go far toward helping viewers puzzle out the meaning of his serene grey, white and dull-brown forms. He would say only that Val d'Orcia is in Tuscany, adding abstractly: "Of course I should say that the color and shape, for color and shape are indivisible, are affected by the place...