Word: camps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the Rif mountains have become a sort of giant casbah, ruled by an underground that is becoming each day more highly organized. Last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow received an anonymous phone call inviting him to visit their camp. A clandestine meeting with Riff leaders in Rabat was followed by a scribbled note of introduction in Arabic; he was led into the hills, first by car and then by mule, handed on from guide to guide. Rocks and bushes along the roads and paths turned out to be camouflaged tribesmen. Time after time he and his guides were stopped...
Gantries & Sentries. Named for the late Air Force Chief of Staff (1948-53) General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the new base is abuilding on 64,000 eucalyptus-strewn acres that in World War II and Korea were Army's Camp Cooke. Tattered bayonet targets, reminders of pre-pushbutton war, stand in a quiet tract, while 3,900 civilians and 3,500 airmen work busily around a futuristic maze: three 135-ft. Atlas gantries on nearly completed pads, three more Atlas pads still being poured, eight Thor pads, 8,000-ft. bases for electronic tracking, a hangar-shaped missile-assembly building...
...from 7,000 to 9,000 in two years, school enrollment has all but doubled, land values have gone from $2,000 to $8,000 an acre. But even though its streets are jammed with airmen, construction workers and even visiting R.A.F. trainees, Lompoc, remembering the fabulous buildups at Camp Cooke during past wars-and the abrupt shutdowns that followed-is alone in the world in not quite believing that missiles are here to stay...
...Death Be Not Proud* Author Elizabeth Nicholas considers the fate of seven brave young women agents of the S.O.E. Four of them-Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanesky, Andree Borrel-were thrust into the Nazi crematorium at Natzweiler and burned alive. The other three also died in a concentration camp, if not quite as horribly...
Today bushy-browed Comedian Jim (Mr. Magoo) Backus, 45, is one of TV's busiest players, appearing in everything from panel shows to serious drama. The part may be small-last week he was a relatively minor summer-camp counselor on Playhouse go's Free Weekend-but by Hollywood standards, Backus has arrived in a big way. Latest evidence: a lusty new (unghosted) autobiography, Rocks on the Roof (Putnam; $3.50), and a recent automated panegyric on This Is Your Life...