Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighter which everyone in the business agrees will not be cut back: production of the F-102 and its faster, more advanced version, called the F-106, will probably total 350. In addition, Convair is a big contractor in the Air Force's nuclear bomber project and the Atlas intercontinental missile. Furthermore, Convair also has its B58 Hustler, first big supersonic U.S. bomber, in the air as a possible interim weapon until missiles take over long-range bombardment duties. So far, Convair has orders for a test batch of 17 Hustlers, and has Air Force promises of solid quantity...
...during a conversation. But Charlie also developed a passion for reading a dictionary as living literature. "When I look up a word," he says, "I start to browse, and next thing I know, I've read four or five pages." (Now he bones up on the Rand McNally Atlas and the World Almanac before his sessions on the air.) One weekend in his teens, he picked up the Bible and read it through. He feels, however, that he never read in earnest until he decided to try for a Ph.D. in English literature. He systematically read his way through...
...centuries the fierce Berber tribes, sons of Ham, have been the scourge of Morocco. Time and again they have come galloping down from the Atlas Mountains to loot and rape. Because the French have not hesitated to use them for "pacifying" rebellious villages, they were always a threat to the Moroccan independence movement. One exception were the Tafilalet Berbers, led by Chief Addi ou Bihi, who sided with exiled Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef was restored to the throne in 1955 to become the first Sultan of Free Morocco, one of his first acts was to appoint Addi...
...cruising in the Mediterranean last week when Addi learned that a new government appointed judge was on his way to Tafilalet. The judge arrived by air in Midelt, a mountain village built around an old red clay crenelated fortress in a cedar forest below the snow-capped Atlas peaks. Addi gave the signal, and some 3,000 Berber horsemen clad in white-and-brown burnooses swept down on Midelt. They quickly surrounded the fortress, captured the Rabat-appointed judge and 18 local policemen...
Youssef's government the bloodless collapse of Addi was a triumph. To the people of Morocco it seemed that the new order was finally taming the wild men of the Atlas Mountains...