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...Youssef (now grandly styled Sultan Mohammed V) was cruising in the Mediterranean last week when Addi learned that a new government appointed judge was on his way to Tafilalet. The judge arrived by air in Midelt, a mountain village built around an old red clay crenelated fortress in a cedar forest below the snow-capped Atlas peaks. Addi gave the signal, and some 3,000 Berber horsemen clad in white-and-brown burnooses swept down on Midelt. They quickly surrounded the fortress, captured the Rabat-appointed judge and 18 local policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Taming the Tribes | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez armes!" cried Addi. The ..warriors snapped to attention, then let their rifles fall to the ground, a symbol of surrender. The ceremony was followed by an ample lunch, attended by Addi, in the red clay fort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Taming the Tribes | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...planning a parents weekend, the SGA was acting on a recommendation made at the student government's Cedar Hill Conference last month. The purpose of the project, according to SGA President Karen A. Goukassow '57, is to encourage a visit from parents who might not come on their own initiative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Student Government Plans 'Invitational Weekend' for Parents | 10/10/1956 | See Source »

...their wind after a particularly savage block. Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Man | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Jordan has said that his school needs at least ten million dollars "to provide adequately for its present enrollment." He made this announcement at a meeting of Cedar Hill, Radcliffe's Student Government meeting...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Killian Says M.I.T.'s Funds Not Adequate | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

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