Word: commandos
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...York, making a 1954 debut, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's great grey colt Native Dancer, odds-on (3-20), romped off with Belmont Park's $15,000 Commando Purse. The race was a warmup for this week's Metropolitan, first event in racing's handicap triple crown, where the Dancer will carry...
...time GHQ had received such a message since the battle started five weeks before. Dienbienphu's tired but resting defenders still had to keep their heads down: Red artillery and mortar observers could note every movement along the shell-pocked valley. There was some heavy skirmishing: a Red commando detachment infiltrated the northern end of the airstrip disused since March 28, and the French could not winkle them out. But there was time for regular services on Easter Sunday morning...
Later, in Burma, where he served as a squadron commander in Colonel Philip Cochran's famed Air Commando Group, Harman chalked up another first. in helicopter history. He made the world's first military helicopter rescue, bringing out three British soldiers and an American flyer who had crashed in the jungle...
...ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present to smoke Commando cigarettes...
...Trek. The ascent had been planned with the thoroughness of a commando raid: vast preparation for a brief but crucial hour. The expedition assembled in March at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Its leader was John Hunt, 43, a grizzled British colonel whose knowledge of mountains (Kangchenjunga, K-36) and men (in World War II, he commanded Pathans, Gurkhas, Dogras and Scots) quickly won respect...