Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army mess recently invited more Moslems than Europeans to a tea, and warned Europeans that if they did not mix with the Moslem guests, "only one conclusion could be drawn"-that fraternization was a myth. One French captain wrote a dozen letters to local rebels, promising them amnesty if they left the F.L.N. to resume normal lives in their villages. Several replied in almost friendly fashion, one saying that he wanted to wait and see what came of De Gaulle's forthcoming meeting with the King of Morocco. That meeting, if it takes place, would imply high-level Moslem...
...three of the last eight holes, but finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back to wait, and wait. Into contention shot a pair of rugged challengers: Mike Souchak, 32, onetime Duke University All-America football player, and Bob Rosburg, 32, onetime captain of Stanford University's N.C.A.A. champion golf team...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Evans,an actor whose melodramatic technique is the living despair of the Actors' Studio, in a play, exactly shaped to the cut of his jib, about a British minesweeper captain in World...
After the nuclear explosion that atomized the planet Doris, the scientist named Mimarobe was seized by the space cadets and thrown into Captain Chefone's dungeon, accused of fouling the radiation apparatus that powered the electronic brain. As presented in Stockholm's Royal Opera House last week, this kind of interstellar meller was meant not for science-fiction escapists but for devotees of avant-garde music. Occasion: the premiere of Swedish Composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Aniara, widely hailed as the first operatic excursion into the world of outer space...
...Academically, star football players ranged the field. The Air Academy's first All-American, Tackle and Captain Brock Strom, graduated No. 7 in his class. Strom is going to M.I.T. for postgraduate training (astronautics). West Point's celebrated All-American Halfback Pete Dawkins, a Rhodes Scholar and future infantryman who will attend paratroop training school this summer before leaving for England, ranked No. 10. But West Point's mighty Tackle Maurice Hilliard barely managed to squeeze into a commission by holding down the "goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy...