Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if Bourguiba wanted to, it would be physically impossible for Tunisia to seal off its 600-mile border with Algeria. The southern 300 miles of the frontier run through forbidding desert; its northern reaches run through impenetrable woods broken by scrubby hills and low, rocky mountains. So rough is this terrain that even the French have made no serious effort to fortify the frontier itself. Instead, the French army has built the "Morice line," a 150-mile electrified barbed-wire fence along the Bône-Tebessa Railway (see map), which at some points lies as much...
Split Claims. A month ago Nasser fired off a note to the Sudanese government of Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt...
...consider. I'll admit my husband wears horn-rimmed glasses, but about the only time they set on his ears is when he watches some esoteric program on TV such as Perry Mason, The Tracer or Bugs Bunny. We also go skindiving, go on camping trips to the desert, chase rabbits with the kids, cook over a cozy campfire, make love by moonlight, and can have the best family fight in the neighborhood...
Jack Kerouac is mightily busy experiencing. He says he has ten books on tap to follow The Subterraneans, and the chief spokesman of the beat generation may soon make his mark in other fields. Says he: "I promised God a month of meditation in the woods or in the desert if the movies buy On the Road...
Lash on your desert boots, kiddies; we're off on another trip to scialytic San Francisco...