Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canons of most top Air Forces brass. The planners reasoned that a rooftop raid would give the striking B-24 Liberators an element of surprise, limit the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe, and throw off the accuracy of flak gunners primed for high-level raiders. How they miscalculated is the core of Authors Dugan and Stewart's taut and gripping tale of a disastrous yet heroic snafu - pieced together from letters, diaries, interviews and correspondence with U.S., German, and Rumanian survivors of the Aug. 1, 1943 raid...
Obviously, he could not do the same for the hundreds of other Cuban doctors -many of them with some U.S. medical training-living around Miami. So with a core group of Cubans from the Havana University staff (all but half a dozen of the 155 pre-Castro professors and assistants have fled), Buck Jones set up the Faculty in Exile. With U.S. volunteers joining in as tutors, the Cubans were offered a total of 80 hours a week free in graduate medical courses, plus English...
Despite the crisp rifle fire of its gags, A Thousand Clowns would not be so irrepressibly amusing if its characters were not so appealingly human. Playwright Gardner gives each of them the chance to show a core of dignity beneath the crust of daffiness. Like most plays about nonconformity. Clowns fudges its theme by leaving its hero where it should find him, with a job, a girl and responsibilities. The play is very New Yorky in tone, but its high good humor knows no geography. In a uniformly superb cast, Jason Robards Jr., previously starred in somber roles, emerges...
...Freedom Ride--A Documentary Film" will be presented by the Winthrop House Forum Series in conjunction with CORE tonight at 8 p.m. in the House's Junior (H-Entry) Common Room. The film, which depicts scenes from the recent freedom rides, is open to the public...
...really isn't that much difference between food prepared in the central and that cooked in independent House kitchens, Mrs. Claude E. Welch . Although many complaints are legitimate, "some Houses just seem to small core of complainers," she said...