Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bright Gift. No TV Christmas season is complete, of course, without violence. That came on both weekends as the pro football teams played with that uncommon ferocity that breaks out when they sniff the big money of playoff and bowl games. NBC opted for violence remembered in "Alamein...
...ALAMEIN: A MONTY MEMOIR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). British Field Marshal Montgomery recalls, with the help of actual combat footage, how his Eighth Army defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the North African desert 25 years...
Then, "You Can't Live Crooked (and Think Straight)": "If you want to save your nation Before it's too late, Let's stop our crooked living, and--think straight!" And "Freedom Isn't Free": "From Vietnam to Alamein, Our fighting men will have died in vain, If we just go on with our comfort and ease, Doing exactly as we dang well please!" It was stirring. And then, after all the songs, Will Storey, a Negro and one of the troupe's leaders spoke. He was followed by national program director John Sayre accompanied by catcalls and hisses...
...will pass Iraq in production, rank fourth in the Middle East (after Saudi Arabia, Kuwait ,and Iran). Algerian production is growing and tiny Tunisia became an exporter for the first time this year. Before long, Egypt will be in the market, thanks to a Phillips Petroleum strike near El Alamein announced last week...
...British manner, right down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted men are also right out of Kipling's pages?sturdy Jats and turbaned Sikhs, rawboned Pathans and sinewy Sindhis, volunteers all, whose regimental flags are inscribed with battle names ranging from Ypres and Gallipoli to El Alamein and Monte Cassino and Rangoon...