Word: commando
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...years as a stockbroker, even though "I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was." In the next six years of war, Fleming was in naval intelligence, and much of the first book was based on his wartime experiences. James Bond is a composite of commando and intelligence types Fleming knew. The big gambling scene in Casino Royale was suggested by a wartime encounter in Lisbon, when Fleming sat down opposite the top German agent in Portugal at the chemin de fer table...
...leading force behind this progress is a kind of constitutional commando-Manhattan's N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Though it has only 14 fulltime lawyers, the aggressive defense fund has in recent years argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other non-governmental organization. Last week it scored again when the court ordered faster school desegregation in Atlanta (see EDUCATION). While also celebrating its 25th birthday, the "Inc. Fund," as it is now known by its many friends and many foes, basked in praise from such admirers as Burke Marshall, the Justice Department...
...charitable foundation in 1882, the society today is a kind of spiritual commando unit, experimenting with new tactics of evangelism on the battleground of the Inner City. It has taken over, integrated and kept alive a dozen Protestant churches that threatened to close up shop when whites-only neighborhoods turned into Negro slums. Its West Side Christian Parish consists of three storefront chapels in a Negro district, one run by a dozen laymen and a minister who live together in shared poverty on a welfare-scale budget. Another society-sponsored church cheerfully operates out of a former...
Under the flame trees that line Dar es Salaam's breezy waterfront esplanade, the 45th Royal Marine Commando band tootled a medley of marches. Carefree Tanganyikans of all races sauntered under sunny skies, staring at the great British warships at anchor outside Dar's tidy harbor or simply listening to the music. But the holiday mood was superficial. All through East Africa, worried government leaders were busy patching the flimsy fabric of their infant nations, torn by a week of armed mutiny and racial violence...
Died. Group Captain Adolf Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 52, one of World War II's top air aces, South African merchant sailor who traded his sea legs for wings, bagged 35 Nazi planes as an R.A.F. Spitfire pilot, returned home to organize 250,000 veterans into the "Torch Commando," which disbanded in 1953 after an unsuccessful campaign to change the racist policies of Prime Minister Daniel Malan, a distant relative; of pneumonia; in Kimberley, South Africa...