Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said. They shaved his hair off with electric clippers, daubed coal tar on his head and face. Then they packed 4-ft. Kim into a 3-ft. crate used to carry plane parts, put holes in it to give him air and loaded their cargo aboard a helicopter. The camp commander, Major Thomas G. James of Plymouth, Pa., flew the copter himself. James planned to leave the boy at a disused field and make him walk back to Ascom City. But he found he could not get the box open, and flew on to Uijongbu, twelve miles north of Seoul...
...memory whetted by the news that Mamie Eisenhower had retreated into the beauty-rejuvenating cloisters of Arizona's "Maine Chance" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Musicomedienne Beatrice Lillie, 59, mused on her own stint in the rise-at-7:30, lights-out-at-10:30 Elizabeth Arden camp: "Miss Separate Table, that was me. Everyone else was dieting. I was trying to put on some weight." Then with gusto Bea recalled: "One night some of us-and I won't say which-sneaked out the window, past the guards and rushed into Phoenix. There was a loud bar there...
...Self-Exile Marson is finding plenty to do away from his classroom. He is writing a book and a pamphlet expanding his attacks on the nation's schools. This summer, as he has for the past three decades, Marson will run his boys' camp in New Hampshire. But next fall, his critique of American education squarely on the record. Schoolmaster Marson hopes to be back in a classroom giving his fact-packed lectures on Shakespeare and syntax that so well prepared his Boston Latin boys for college...
Nowhere was the "confusion and complexity" of when, how, why. and if to intervene more strikingly illustrated than in the American diplomatic camp. U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was an aging (67), old-line Missouri politician with a passion for poker. British Agent Bruce Lockhart recalled that after dinner, "Francis began to fidget like a child who wishes to return to its toys. His rattle, however, was a deck of cards." Ambassador Francis' poker-faced response to the Russian enigma was to hole up 250 miles north of Moscow in the town of Vologda, where he received garbled telegraphic...
Colonel Devere P. Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics, referring to his group's performance at the camp, said, "We are trying to take preliminary action that will permit Harvard men to do better up there...