Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tootling into Thailand to liven up the U.S. exhibit at an international fair, Bandleader Benny Goodman and his 14 musicians were soon summoned to Bangkok's royal palace for a command performance. For an hour, as King Phumiphon, 29, himself both a jazzy hornblower and composer (Blue Night), and Queen Sirikit tapped in tempo, Goodman and his men swung out such tunes as On the Sunny Side of the Street and a royalty-requested Lazy River. The King then gave each member of Goodman & Co. a crested silver cigarette case, was in turn presented with a handsome clarinet. That...
Last summer, making common cause with Communists and crypto-Communists, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, gained the upper hand in the army, placed Syria's 25,000 troops under joint command with Nasser's, and pushed deals with the Soviet bloc that by last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade...
...clock Sunday afternoon a combat-loaded Strategic Air Command B-52 Stratofortress plunked down at Baltimore's Friendship International Airport after a history-making journey. In 26 hours it had flown 13,500 miles, from Loring Air Force Base near Limestone (Maine) to Goose Bay (Labrador), to Thule (Greenland), north to the Pole, south to Anchorage (Alaska), thence to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Abilene, Tampa, Key West, Miami, Atlanta and, finally, Baltimore...
...hobby is guns. After Sullivan had produced a successful experimental model, he was taken under the wing of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. and turned out 30 copies of a highly efficient, 2¼-lb., unsinkable, survival-kit, .22-cal. rifle for the Air Force's Strategic Air Command crews...
When Roy heard that hundreds of wounded Egyptians were suffering for lack of water and medical facilities in a hospital, he browbeat the French command into sending a water truck. When a French-speaking Egyptian woman pleaded for milk for her five small children, Roy rammed his jeep through the iron blind of a locked milk store. British MPs warned him that pillaging was a crime for which he could be shot. "O.K., go ahead and shoot," said Roy. He gave one case of powdered milk to the woman, delivered a jeep load to a hospital...