Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two months of fighting, irregulars of the Moroccan Liberation Army, under the leadership of a squat ex-Marrakech street vendor named Ben Hamou, have driven the Spanish out of most of their Atlantic Coast enclave of Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed...
...Ben Hamou's nationalists and tribesmen were moving fast. Now calling themselves the new Saharan Army of Liberation, they appeared at Edchera, near Aiun, in the midst of a blinding sandstorm, launched a fierce attack on its garrison of Spanish soldiers and Legionnaires. It was the most murderous battle since the 1934 French "pacification" campaign. The Spanish claimed the Moroccans fled, leaving 241 corpses and 20 camels. The communiqué also listed 51 Legionnaires dead, but a knowing Madrid source indicated that total Legion casualties almost equaled the Moroccan dead...
...fired from submarines or surface vessels, and liquid-oxygen fueling is too complex for shipboard handling. Since solid-fuel missiles can be fired in the minutes needed to arm their warhead and make the final check on their guidance and control systems. Air Force Missile Boss Major General Ben Schriever is interested in Polaris, has a team of technicians sitting in on the Navy Polaris project. Said Richard Horner. Air Force Assistant Secretary for Research and Development, last week: "There is the possibility of a very clear payoff for both...
...local rug merchant came around to take back his carpeting. Last fall. $215,000 in debt, Belin filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He explained that the Texas insurance companies that were to buy the bond issue were under investigation and that one was headed by Boy Wizard Ben-Jack Cage, who had been convicted of embezzlement (TIME, Nov. 4). But as Missouri newspapers soon found out, money was not the only root of the university's evils...
...died, the man who moved in to tie the corporation's many divisions together was Frank Pace, 45, onetime U.S. Budget Director and Secretary of the Army. Even Madison Avenue admen, whose accounts were swimming back and forth like salmon, changed their lures. At year's end Ben C. Duffy, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and probably the best-liked man along Madison Avenue, decided to retire after a long illness. His heir: Charles H. Brower. 56, a top idea man, who lost the $8 million Revlon account in September, said he would "just...