Word: ambusher
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...Algeria, moderates were not to be found, and the only sounds Nationalists made were gunshots. Touring the Aures mountain battleground, new Governor General and Minister Resident Robert Lacoste met Foreign Legionnaires who had just fought their way out of an ambush. In one of the bitterest battles of Algeria's little, undeclared war, eight Legionnaires and 48 rebels had died...
...handsome British major of 34 is decorated with the coveted George Medal for his bravery in breaking up an ambush of terrorists. But Major Brian Coombe has killed a man and he is not proud. "My driver was killed by one of them and it was my duty to bring to justice the people who murdered him," he says softly. "As a result, one frightened, pathetic young Cypriot was killed. It is tragic. The Cypriots now are acclaiming the dead man as their hero, and the British press is acclaiming me as theirs. You may think I am talking like...
...year-old El Khabouchi as the commander of a thousand Berber rebels lurking in Morocco's Rif Mountains. He hides out in the Spanish Moroccan hamlet of Talamrhecht, and on occasion sneaks across the border to shoot up his old home town of Tizi Ouzli, or to ambush passing convoys. El Khabouchi's Berbers and other rebel bands are currently tying down seven times their number of French troops...
...Frontier, the rustle of petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns on the trail from San Diego to the Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh...
After duly stabbing herself to wind up a soaring performance in Madame Butterfly, Hell's-Kitchen-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (TIME, Nov. 21) strode offstage in Chicago's Civic Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers, who were there to tag her with summonses in breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago...