Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stead Air Force Base near Reno, Commandos learn to withstand Communist interrogation techniques by spending six hours in an isolation cell, half an hour in a cramped black box. In basic training at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, they are given a tattered piece of parachute from which to fashion shelter, then left to make shift in a swampy area for 3½ days. In the Panama Canal Zone their jungle training is enlivened by tarantulas and real but friendly Indians, who pursue them, try to steal their hats as a symbol of having slain them. The Commandos...
...Christ's Strategy." Across the U.S., thousands of Christian laymen in the past decade have joined in forming such groups, and the small, informal "cell" of an "apostolic few" is becoming a significant new form of American religious life. "Small groups," says Dr. Clyde Reid of Union Theological Seminary, "are here to stay." Inevitably, some of the cells consist of faddists and the clique-minded; but most seem to be made up of dedicated Christians who have found that in company with a few fellow believers, they can learn about theology and the Bible and grapple with the concrete...
...Brazilian embassy. A fifth, Colonel Charles Turnier, was picked up and dragged to Dessalines barracks for "questioning." Next morning machine guns rattled in the barracks, and there was Turnier dead on the drill ground. The official version was that Turnier somehow acquired a pistol, broke out of his cell, and was cut down as he darted toward the commanding officer's quarters...
With her Young Communist training, Janet conducted cell meetings on Communist ideology. She helped organize Cheddi's following into his People's Progressive Party, now runs it as secretary-general and edits the party's Red-lining paper called Thunder. Associates are called "comrade," and last year she spent three weeks in East Berlin, Moscow and Peking talking trade and spreading the word about what was going on in British Guiana...
...Care of the Surgical Patient, a six-pound omnibus of 1,011 pages, would be monument enough for most men; it is a basic and irreplaceable text for modern surgeons. But Moore is still enlarging the dimensions of his monument. W. B. Saunders Co. has just published The Body Cell Mass and Its Supporting Environment (helpfully subtitled "Body Composition in Health and Disease"), with Dr. Moore as lead-off man among the six coauthors...