Word: 26th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler...
...disappointments were Princeton's Mike Kingston and Penn's Earnest Tracy. Kingston, who won the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet last week, finished 26th, and Tracy, first against the Crimson and Columbia earlier this season, could do no better than 32nd...
...July 26th, 1953, in Oriente Province 125 youths attempted to storm the Moncada army post, manned by over 1,000 soldiers. Their leader, Fidel Castro, was counting upon the elements of surprise and timing to overwhelm the garrison, and later claimed that if a group of 45 men had not made a wrong turn on the outskirts of Moncada he would have succeeded...
...uncoiling curves, change-ups and fastballs, Bertha Ragan, 35, had again showed she was the greatest pitcher in women's softball by throwing four shutouts (including one no-hitter) to lead her Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, Conn, to their second successive championship on their home field in the 26th World Softball tournament...
...woman Ruby Phillips, in a story run by the Times (over
Matthews' strong objections), reported in detail on "a Communist
pattern in the development of the revolutionary program." Again, in
May, Ruby Phillips wrote: "Since the victory of the Castro revolution
last Jan. i, the Communists and the 26th of July movement have been in
close cooperation." Most newsmen agreed.