Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joust began with an assault on Britain by Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Much hung on Averoff's performance. If he failed to win Greece a respectful hearing in the U.N., Premier Constantine Karamanlis' shaky pro-American government would be in deep trouble. (During a recent Greek parliamentary debate on Cyprus, Karamanlis was called "traitor" a dozen times within an hour...
...cities, Negroes, making up an average 11% of the population, accounted in 1955 for an average 35% of the arrests for what the FBI calls "major crimes" (homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, theft), and 57% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm...
...outright rebellion in the ranks of his once dedicated Deputies. Four refused to hand over their monthly paychecks to Poujade. Another four resigned outright. His chief legislative lieutenant, ex-Paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, vol unteered for service in Algeria. When Poujade refused to back France's assault on Suez, Le Pen threatened to return when his service was over and rally 19 other dissatisfied Poujadists into a new party. Poujade needed a triumph if he was to keep the leadership of his tattered forces...
What was the point of "Operation Jubilee"? Was the Italian radio correct in saying that the "British High Command did not even know what it hoped to achieve"? The British claimed that the assault "provided vital information" for the Normandy invasion, but the principal discoveries seem to have been merely 1) that the Germans built excellent fortifications, 2) that Intelligence must show a lot more intelligence, 3) that infantry attacking heavily fortified positions needs heavy covering fire...
...perceptive camera follows the boy (James MacArthur) from his high school to his Beverly Hills home, and deftly begins probing into his relationship with his father (James Daly). On the surface, all seems calm enough, but the trouble is deep. It breaks out when the boy is charged with assault and battery after punching a bad-tempered theater manager who was tossing him out for annoying a customer. The boy admits to having been a nuisance, but denies he is an "assaulter and batterer." "It was self-defense," he cries, but his father will not believe...