Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington understood congressional fears, respected its ideal of civil control, and won it over in the end with honesty -and his dogged hope of victory. He did not underestimate his army. Revolutionary soldiers might desert, but they often returned to fight again. They might break before British bayonets, but they would regroup and fight the next day. Properly led, they endured incredible hardship, often without pay, without proper clothing, without proper food...
First Person (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Rod Steiger in Desert Cafe...
...Force 8-36 droned through the sky 35,000 ft. above Yucca Flat, Nev. just before dawn one morning last week, and slowly opened its barn-sized bomb-bay doors. Forty-two seconds later, at 4:15 a.m., the desert below exploded into noonday brilliance. For five miles around, acres of Joshua trees, cactus and sagebrush burst into flame. A sturdy frame house ten miles from the explosion collapsed. In San Francisco, 600 miles to the west, people saw the incandescent flash; in Pasadena, 250 miles southwest, they heard the explosion as a rumble in the distance...
...years as a desert surgeon, Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury saw only 66 cases of cancer among Arizona's Navajos, with not a single breast cancer among the women. To pin down the difference between cancer rates among Navajos and the surrounding whites, Arizona and the U.S. Public Health Service are launching an intensive survey. Then they will try to find out what causes the difference...
...achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military experts. Brigadier Desmond Young's biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, sold 300,000 copies in Britain and the U.S., and the movie version, while raising the tempers of those who could not bear the sight of so high a pedestal for a Nazi general, helped make Rommel the best known enemy commander...