Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, the army commander in central Israel ordered a 5 p.m. curfew enforced in Arab villages near the Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim...
...just a "6ft. hunk of talking putty," but what with a pretty wife, four kids and a rented dog, he looks great on television; and so he carries the day. All alone, the old man walks through the night to his empty home. All alone, he has a heart attack...
Died. Josef Wintrich, 67, president of West Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, which in 1956 handed down the decision outlawing the Communist Party in West Germany; of a heart attack; in Karlsruhe, West Germany...
Died. Winona Fisher, 70, daughter of 98-year-old Primitivist Painter Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, N.Y. Of Grandma Moses' ten children, two survive. Seven years ago, at 63, Winona returned from California to look after her aging mother...
...Exchange, industrials continued their rise to record highs, and utilities touched their highest since Sept. 23, 1930; three times the tape fell behind. Next day the market turned right around and headed down, falling 4.23 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Not since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had the market seen such heavy trading. As 5,110,000 shares changed hands, the tape fell behind seven times, once as much as 15 minutes, for the greatest number of late tapes since the Exchange began to count them in 1940. Wednesday the market tumbled further...