Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 29 Science article describes Dr. Gardiner Bump of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an excited and hopeful man looking forward to his experience with the bustard in the Southwestern desert. As a member of the Desert Rats, I view Dr. Bump's enthusiasm with alarm. The crime he intends to perpetrate upon our Southwest is far more serious than that wreaked upon Cambridge and Boston by the lad who introduced pigeons into that region...
Austen F Riggs II '48 2G and George I. Bell '48 stepped off a Pan-American clipper at 6 a.m. If all goes well, they will meet the other four student-mountaineers at a desert crossroads Friday, June...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...
Died. Field Marshal Earl Wavell, 67, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, onetime (1943-47) Viceroy of India, author (Allenby: A Study in Greatness), poet, historian and scholar; after an abdominal operation; in London. Taciturn, one-eyed Field Marshal Wavell mastered desert fighting under the late great Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, horse-cavalry victor of the 1917-18 Palestine campaign; as commander in chief in the Middle East, Wavell smashed Graziani's Italian army during the 1940 North African campaign; after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Mac lean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...