Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other a Viet Minh. It is a colonial war, not so much in reality any more, but still so in the minds of some Frenchmen who have not unlearned the past, and in the minds of some Vietnamese who will not forget it. It is a civil war, too: countryman fighting countryman, often not because of differing convictions but because of the accident of geography and which side was there to conscript him. The Vietnamese nationalists tell you that half or more of the Viet Minh fighters they face are not Communists but other nationalists, who are persuaded...
...Conquest of Everest (Countryman Films; United Artists) is a film record, in full color, of the 1953 expedition led by Colonel (now Sir) John Hunt of the British army, which succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002 ft.). The film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur...
...trained Freudians as the only true analysts. And it was Jones who braved Nazi cops in 1938 to bring the ailing Freud, with his wife and daughter Anna, from Vienna to England. Since he was bombed out of London during the blitz, Dr. Jones himself has become a placid countryman. He likes to look out of his windows at the rolling Sussex hills, which he calls "maternal mounds." A close student of the Oedipus-complected Hamlet, he is said to have coached Sir Laurence Olivier on the proper gestures to suggest the prince's improper urges...
...Davis Cup matches, Japan's Ichiya Kumagae sat in the stands at Forest Hills and excitedly watched his countryman, Zenzo Shimizu, whip Tilden in the first two sets 7-5, 6-4. Shimizu got within two points of match in the third set. Then Tilden shifted out of second gear. Playing faultlessly, he got off smashes, drop shots, over-spins, undercuts, volleys and cannonball serves the like of which the Japanese had never seen. He pulled out the third set, 7-5, romped through the next two, 6-2, 6-1. The Japanese went home without the cup, beaten...
Norway's Jon Riisnaes is not quite so articulate about his ski jumping as his fellow countryman Sigmund Ruud, former world champion; but at the young jumping age of 21, Riisnaes, a whisper-thin (6 ft. 1 in., 135 Ibs.), blue-eyed blond, is just as enthusiastic, and fast becoming as proficient as the famed Ruud brothers.*Last week, standing atop the towering (556 ft.) slide at Iron Mountain, Mich., Jon had "a little of what you call butterflies in the stomach." An exchange student (engineering) at the University of New Hampshire this year, he also had a tight...