Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Von Hassel needs several weeks to wind up his job as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, the bleak state bordering on Denmark, there was a comic confusion about who would fill the job until he arrives in Bonn. No one seemed able to decide. At first everyone assumed that Strauss's former No. 2 man in the ministry would have the interim job, but an official spokesman named another man for the job. At last came the baffling declaration that burly Franz Josef Strauss himself would return to the Defense post until Von Hassel could take over...
...whites, outnumbered 13 to 1 by Southern Rhodesia's blacks, clearly did not see it that way. The Rhodesian Front is expected to wind up with 35 seats, to 29 for the U.F.P. Chosen to succeed Whitehead as Prime Minister was Front President Winston Field, 58, an English-born tobacco and cattle farmer who looks like Howard Hughes with a suntan...
...permit. Since the Portuguese have no restrictions, refugees use nearby Macao as a handy jumping-off point to Hong Kong. In Macao, operating openly under the aegis of the China Travel Service, no fewer than five Communist agencies with enticing names like "Favorable Wind" and "Sojourn Intercourse'' steer customers to smugglers for a fee of $3.50 a head. After dark the travel agents put them aboard junks...
...ranges widely and perceptively over ideas and legend. It may light on the aging Admiral Christopher Columbus, appearing on deck in the darkest watch of night "hollow-eyed and crumpled, like a dry, wind-driven, scurrying leaf." Or on Diogenes: "His castle was an upended winevat by the gates of Corinth. Alexander the Great called on him there. All radiant, the Conqueror leaned down across the neck of his white charger, doffed his golden helmet and inquired what he might do for Diogenes. 'Move on,' Apollo's man suggested. 'You're in my light...
...seemed a step forward. But when Iran's tradition-bound Moslem mullahs got wind of the plan, they flatly rejected it as "not in keeping with Islamic law." Already under intense pressure from the mullahs, who fear the government's land-reform program will affect their vast lands, Premier Assadollah Alam finally yielded. Last week Alam suspended the decree, and Iran's unveiled women remained unfranchised as well...