Word: captain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime's security forces have cracked down hard on the underground. Thirty-one suspected royalists, ranging from general to captain, are in prison on charges of trying to subvert the army. More than 100 Patriotic Fronters and other Communists received long jail terms. Sometimes the inexperience of the resistance workers betrays them. Police are waiting to interview a young Athens professor who is recovering from injuries caused last month by the explosion of a bomb that he was assembling. In his cellar, the police found twelve plastiques. The 13th was the unlucky...
...Wayne was rescued by Screenwriter Borden Chase, who created a role that Wayne could play, he predicted, "for the next 20 years." The movie was Red River, a western version of Mutiny on the Bounty with the range as the ocean and John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh. Wayne was at last allowed to play his age (41). Like a man loosening his belt and taking off his tie after a day in the office, the Duke was relaxed, secure and solid. The kid had gone respectable and become a father. Red River was a critical...
Irina's other suitor is the captain, Solyony, who kills Tusenbach in the duel. He is a strange man, and throughout the play keeps putting scent on his hands to get rid of their smell of death--like some sort of male Lady Macbeth. Right from the first act, Charles Cioffi's portrayal is a remarkable piece of acting. Solyony speaks scarcely a half dozen times in all of Act I, and spends most of the time sitting silently on a chair in the corner. Nevertheless, Cioffi tells us a great deal about this morose and mysterious character. We notice...
...splinters from broken glasses and bottles. And the four-man police force of the city of Webster (adjacent to the Manned Spacecraft Center) gently arrested a dozen happy drunks. The county sheriff's officers, however, seemed unable to find any wrongdoers. "This was a proud crowd," explained Captain Gus George, of the sheriff's office. "You with...
...went to Spain in 1948 because of an agreement made between his father, Don Juan, and Franco that called for the young Prince to be educated in Spain. Under Franco's personal supervision, Juan Carlos underwent intensive schooling in military and political arts. He holds the ranks of captain in the army and air force and the equivalent grade of full lieutenant in the navy. He is a jet-fighter and helicopter pilot, an Olympic yachtsman, an accomplished horseman and a black-belt karate expert. He is fluent in five languages (Spanish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese) and conversant...