Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...open next week in New York City, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer handed him two notes. They contained requests from West Germany which will be submitted to the ministers. In one note, Adenauer asked that the Occupation Statute be revised so as to give West Germany more independence. In his second note, Adenauer tackled the far more crucial question of West Germany's defense...
...working with Field included dark, sneering Leo Bauer, boss of Radio Berlin; former SED Executive Committee Member Paul Merker, who spent the war years in Mexico; Lex Ende, onetime editor of Neues Deutschland, official party organ; Railways Boss Willy Kriekemeyer, and dapper little Bruno Goldhammer, Eisler's own second-in-command at the propaganda bureau. Though still at liberty and at his job last week, Gerhart Eisler, who was kicked off the Central Committee two months ago, was reported to be high on the list of those soon to be purged...
...better every year. The 1916 Lucky Bag (Academy yearbook) said: "Raddy came to us as a child-a pink-cheeked Apollo; since then he has been fooling people." The yearbook entry mentioned Radford's prowess with "drags" (i.e., girls), and sketched a disaster that happened in his second year-"he got a smoking pop with a hop only a week off"-which means that he was disciplined for out-of-bounds smoking and missed a dance...
...otherwise used for training. When the Navy sent out its first postwar call for academy graduates to take flight training at Pensacola, Radford jumped at the chance, and might have gotten into the first Pensacola class if his ship had not been in Honduras. He made the second class, and got his "bird" (pilot's wings) as Naval Aviator No.2896...
...second time in five years, scholarly Norman Armour, 62, was coaxed out of honorable retirement by the State Department last week and reassigned to active duty. Professional Diplomat Armour, who has served his country for 31 years in posts from old Petrograd to modern Buenos Aires, accepted appointment as Ambassador to Venezuela, where he will replace able Careerman Walter Donnelly, the new U.S. Minister and High Commissioner for Austria. Having served as ambassador to both Perón's Argentina and Franco's Spain, Armour is well qualified to deal with Venezuela's heavy-handed military junta...