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...Casbah. Hot-tempered students and war veterans ordered a general protest strike. Roaming the city in small commando units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced shopkeepers out of stores, stopped buses and trolleys, ordering passengers to descend, poured into post offices, telling employees to quit or be beaten up. Police looked on. The riot fever reached its peak following the burial of Singer Carmen Ramos. Some 1,500 teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from...
After that, though, the sergeant was shot. In the final round he played well, but he could not keep pace with Scotland's Reid Jack, 33. Sergeant Ridgley went around the first 18 in par (72). Jack, onetime British Marine commando lieutenant, countered with 69. But the crowd was still with Ridgley, and a spectator tried to help the sergeant by grinding Jack's golf ball into the sun-baked turf. Ridgley was too tired to care. Although the 1957 British Amateur will be remembered for the semifinal known as "Harold's Homicide," Harold Ridgley lost...
Many teen-age couples, afraid that the government is about to raise the age of consent to the mid-twenties (it is now 20 for men, 18 for women), are rushing into what the Peking People's Daily last week lambasted as "commando marriages." Another factor worrying Peking's Communist moralists is the rising divorce rate. The Workers' Daily recently had sharp words for a man who sought divorce on the ground that his wife was "too revolting to look at." "In fact," said the Workers' Daily, "this man has already been married for 20 years...
LINCOLN'S COMMANDO, by Ralph J. Roske and Charles Van Doren (3 1 0 pp.; Harper; $4.50), is notable as the work of Adult Quiz Kid Van Doren (TIME, Feb. 11, et seq.), a cerebral type who chose as his subject a man of flamboyant contrast. The man: Commander Will Cushing, U.S.N., whose raids up and down the Confederate-held coasts during the second half of the Civil War were the despair of Rebel defenders. Cushing was young and handsome, a braggart as well as an incredibly brave man. His superiors feared his escapades nearly as much...
...imagineering," and the most popular device of all, the "brainstorm." Originator of the brainstorm* is Alex F. Osborn of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, who defines it as a method in which groups of people "use their brains to storm a creative problem and do so in Commando fashion, with each stormer audaciously attacking the same objective...