Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paratroopers, artillerymen, medics, engineers-roamed the streets and filled the gambling palaces. The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood. Then the planes stopped coming in, the khaki-clad Army abruptly vanished. Out on the desert, 65 miles away, 5.000 hand-picked troops were getting their final briefing before Exercise Desert Rock-the G.I.'s introduction to atomic warfare...
...dawn one morning last week, three red-tailed 6-293 took off from New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base and began circling over the AEC's atomic proving grounds at Frenchman's Flat. On the desert below, the Army was supposed to have set up infantry positions, emplaced artillery, and deployed tanks. At 7:20, the 6-295 slid into formation and swept over the target. A blinding, dome-shaped flash lit up the sky; the familiar, mushroom-topped cloud shot up to 20,000 feet. Three hours later, a loo-mile-long radioactive cloud...
...Sudan, whose 8,000,000 people have little love for British or Egyptians, it was the same. Sudan, rich in cotton and wide with desert, is 3½times the size of Texas. Its people, Arab in the north, African tribesmen in the south, want their independence. The British think they won't be ready for it for ten years, but may be forced to concede it sooner. Egypt's peremptory claim of control of the Sudan is opposed by all but one political party in the Sudan. And the resident British Governor General, square-faced Sir Robert...
...undoubtedly, an interesting movie. Beginning with an unusual and active prologue, "The Desert Fox" flashes back for complete coverage of Rommel's life from the British breakthrough at EI Alamein to his suicide in 1945. James Mason, as the general, succeeds in portraying the character called for by the script. It almost appears possible for a man to be at once a hard, supremely competent Field Marshal and a confused, incredibly native politician...
...documenting Young's theory on Rommel, however, director Henry Hathaway has sacrificed a good deal. First to get time enough to explain why Rommel behaved as Young thinks he did, Hathaway and Nunally Johnson, the producer, move too hastily through the Africa Corps' desert campaign. This made some of the book's best sections and certainly would have had high audience appeal. As it is now, the audience is likely to find the film's major portion less lively and less interesting than its beginning. The last three quarters of the movie are devoted to Rommel's inactive years preceding...