Word: cid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anthony Mann, 60, movie director, a onetime off-Broadway bit-player who rose to direct Broadway shows like 1936's So Proudly We Hail before going to Hollywood, where he turned out over 40 films of meticulous workmanship but uneven merit, including The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid; of a heart attack; in West Berlin...
...CID hopes to improve House facilities and keep each House informed of what the others are doing, but will try to avoid "pseudo-professionalism," Miss Moss added...
Improved publicity under the CID will give plays advanced billing from the central agency, therefore selling more tickets and providing enough money for productions of original plays. In addition Miss Moss hopes that House with small cramped stages might be able to put on their shows in Agassiz or Sanders Theatre...
...CID does not plan to go into operation until next Fall, when two candidates from each House will be elected. All the Houses except Quincy House have tentatively agreed...
Under the Omayyad caliphs, Moorish Spain became the strongest, richest nation in Europe. Shortly after the first millennium, the caliphate splintered into tiny Moorish principalities. In the era typified by El Cid, the soldier of fortune who served both Moslems and Christians, chivalry became a warring way of life for Christians. Spanish knights or caballeros, often owning nothing but horse and armor, served to oust the Moors. Monks wore chain mail and were led by bishops wielding battle-axes. The conflict, for Christians, took on the character of a holy crusade, but it was warfare often punctured by periods...