Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having won it, last week on his 40th birthday asked the U.S. State Department to issue passports to himself, his wife and their three children. "I didn't arrive at this decision lightly," explained Yankus, a somber, earnest six-footer who was raised in Chicago by immigrant Lithuanian parents, saved through his early life to fulfill his dream of owning a farm. "I did it for a selfish purpose-for my children, because I can foresee the time when they would be bound hand and foot by these controls...
...technical" reasons, said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano last week, the Holy See has withdrawn diplomatic privileges from the envoys of the Polish and Lithuanian pre-war governments. Henceforth, the dean of the Vatican diplomatic corps, Casimir Papee, Ambassador from the Polish government in exile, and Stanislaus Girdvainis. minister from Lithuania before Russia annexed that country in 1940, will probably serve as chargés d'affaires. But no matter how technical the reasons, insiders in Rome buzzed with speculation that the move signaled a new phase of diplomatic relations between Vatican and Kremlin...
...omissions were made because the two diplomats represented "phantom" governments that are no longer recognized by other countries accredited to the Holy See. That statement itself was enough for old Vatican hands to sense a new atmosphere; under Pius XII, who made a point of keeping the Polish and Lithuanian envoys as anti-Communist symbols, there had not been any reference to phantoms...
Heat & Light. Scott's most startling idea was to send to Formosa monosyllabic Football Editor Annis (the "Loquacious Lithuanian") Stukus, onetime coach of the Edmonton Eskimos and British Columbia Lions. Scott's theory: "Stukus will give the average guy a sense of identification with where the hell Formosa is and what's going on there." Stukus filed some earnest Hemingway-like prose, scored a major beat by wrangling an exclusive interview with Chiang Kaishek. Though the session produced nothing new, Scott delightedly ran Footballer Stukus' picture cheek by jowl with the Gimo on the front page...
...then, could Prudent Sherman Adams get himself under obligation to Bernard Goldfine? It was, as a close friend put it, "probably a matter of drifting." Adams was a member of the New Hampshire legislature when he and Goldfine first met; Lithuanian-born Bernard Goldfine was a personable and fast-rising businessman. Adams was fast-rising too, not in bank accounts but in status. To Goldfine, money alone did not bring status, but he spent freely, gave openly. Adams was flattered by the attention; his bedrock New England heart was moved by the warmth and yearnings of an "immigrant" who wanted...