Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social security. As the two boys drove around all night, Marty poured out the troubles he was having with his old man. ended up by saying, "I'm fed up with him. I'm going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis, 15, who agreed to join in the plot because he felt sorry for Marty. The plot was simple: the trio would drive...
Seasick Invasion. In the mountains near Mexico City, Castro set up a military training camp, held meetings with sympathetic Cuban business and professional men, who apparently dismissed his land-reforming, anti-business attitudes as youthful radicalism. It was agreed that once Batista was ousted, the businessmen would take over, rule Cuba for two years, hold free elections. Last December Castro landed a force of 82 seasick men in Oriente, set up headquarters in the Sierra Maestra. Castro knows that he cannot win merely by avoiding capture. But he does want to become a symbol of opposition that will attract...
...Producer-Host Robert Montgomery, TV aide-de-camp to President Eisenhower, rang down the curtain on his hour-long NBC dramatic show after a seven-year run. The last play was Faust '57, a disjointed modern treatment of the classic tale about a pact with the Devil-and an ironic choice, since the program had been going to hell all season. The passing of Robert Montgomery Presents is lamentable not only in light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season...
...lost, found, lost again. Throughout this tapestry of violence, Asch and his "good" operators -Kowalski, Stamm, Soeft-match wits with the "bad" operators, Hauk and Greifer. Both sides use the naive U.S. occupation forces for their own purposes, and Asch and company even capture a prisoner-of-war camp from its U.S. guards in order to kill the villainous Hauk...
Restricted to Camp Whittington, 60 miles from Tokyo, slim, pompadoured Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, parried newsmen with newly polished "no comments," posed for pictures with his fiancée, Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, kept in touch with his lawyers on both sides of the Pacific. As one of his ex-buddies put it, Girard was "learning to walk like a hero" in the growing light of worldwide publicity...