Word: ap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just turning cool in the Rond-Point Mers Sultan when a three-wheeled delivery motorcart pulled up be fore the Café Gonin, crowded with Europeans sipping apéritifs while they waited for the street dancing to begin. Two Moroccan teen-age youths climbed off the motorcycle and walked away. Minutes later, somebody noticed a curl of smoke coming from the motorcycle. Two European youths lifted up the canvas cover and peered in. There was a deafening explosion. Café Gonin's terrace became a mass of writhing, bloody bodies. Six Europeans were dead, 35 wounded...
Victory at the Arroyo. As the day darkened, the sky a shroud of smoke, the Nationalists concentrated four battalions and 18 armored cars against the sandbagged Binh Xuyen strongpoints. In the European quarter, French colonials and a few Americans sipped apéritifs on balconies and watched the distant show-most Frenchmen rooting for the terrorists and most Americans for Ngo Dinh Diem. Soon the news looked bad for the French: the young Nationalists, it seemed, were fighting with efficiency and fervor. During the night the Nationalists attacked and knocked out half a dozen Binh Xuyen strongpoints, one after...
According to the New York office of the Associated Press, the returns were not in from the Far West last night. The AP listed Princeton and the United States Military Academy as other institutions with more than one Rhodes recipient. West Point and Princeton had three each...
...office being quizzed over the telephone by the Boston Globe's suspicious science writer, Frances Burns when word first come through that he and his two associated would receive the outstanding science award of the year. "Wait a second," Miss Burns said. "It's coming over the AP wire. You've won the Nobel Prize...
This year's Associated Press first eleven is unusual since it contains only four seniors and five juniors. In previous years, AP teams were composed mostly of seniors...