Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coursing around the country in stolen cars, he kidnaped nine people, killed six of them. He threw five of his victims-Carl Mosser of Atwood, Ill., his wife and three children-down a well in Joplin. He shot the sixth. Seattle Salesman Robert Dewey, on the Southern California desert. He was caught in Mexico, returned to Oklahoma City to answer for the Mosser killings, and sentenced to 300 years in prison. But last year a California jury sentenced him to death for killing Salesman Dewey. Last week Billy Cook walked into the gas chamber at San Quentin, breathed cyanide fumes...
SAUDI ARABIA Dry Desert...
Died. Sven Anders Hedin, 87, Swedish author-explorer (The Silk Road, Riddles of the Gobi Desert) who did more than anyone since Marco Polo to unveil the geographical mysteries of Central Asia; of cerebral inflammation; in Stockholm. He retraced the ancient silk routes from Cathay to Tyre and, in a series of expeditions covering half a century (1885-1935), put names and colors into blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world...
...kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home by the only safe route - a 3,000-mile detour through the Gobi Desert. On their tremendous journey they have adventures enough to impress Tom Sawyer: a Living Buddha trusts them with a secret message, a great bandit prince bows down to do them reverence, a buried treasure opens to their shovels in a ruined city. The story never rips & snorts; it moves with...
...Choreography in "Strike While It's Hot" is quite good, especially the barroom scene at the end of the first act and the Indian ballot in the second act. The production's scenery, however, was tiring. Only when a hotel frame was moved before the broad expanse of exaggerated desert did the main set lose its flat character. In contrast, design of the barroom set combined with the lighting in that scene sat off the ballot well...