Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet penetration in the Middle East by capturing huge stockpiles of tanks, guns and motorized equipment. They have shown up the hollowness of Nasser's vaunted four-power pact, signed just before the Sinai invasion, by which Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian troops were supposed to march under Egyptian command. And the first frightened session of desert kings that convened after the Sinai rout in Beirut last November signaled a shift which may well make last week's Cairo session the last get-together of "positive-neutrality" Arabs...
Kadar has succeeded in suppressing all active resistance by ruthless use of the secret police, reconstituted under the command of Colonel Laszlo Matyas, strengthened by Hungarian army officers, but still basically made up of the old semi-moronic AVH professionals. The sadists of 60 Stalin Ut (old AVH headquarters) are busier than ever, helped out at a Buda jail by the Russian MVD, which has its own interrogation procedure for VIPs. Scores of Freedom Fighters, including youths and girls, have been brought before summary courts and sentenced to hanging-slow strangulation, old Magyar style...
Brown began collecting surplus electronic and laboratory equipment from the missile base. He talked missile contractors into donating scientific journals and magazines, persuaded the Air Research and Development Command to finance a series of summer scholarships for especially gifted students. But for all his planning, Principal Brown never quite anticipated some of the astonishing things the boys and girls would undertake...
With the execption of a few tense moments in the second period, there was never any doubt as to the outcome of the game. The varsity was in command throughout and had it not been for the excellent goal-tending of the Tiger's Dave Robinson, the game would have been a complete rout. Bob McVey led the Crimson scorers with two goals while Bob Cleary, Dick Reilly, and Dick Fischer each scored...
...Warsaw's glass-domed Sejm is a house of political zombis. Last week, meeting for the first time since the general election, the Sejm was still Communist-dominated, but this time it was Wladyslaw Gomulka's Polish Communists, and not Moscow's stooges, who were in command. The difference was startling...