Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh Communist regiments go for Gabrielle again. The Algerians .stand. At 2000. the Reds try again -the eighth time. "We've been firing for an hour," says a French voice on Gabrielle's radio, "and still they get nearer." At 2030, Red artillery knocks out the radio and searches for the remaining Algerian mortars. The Algerian infantrymen shift their mortars around the perimeter and keep the Reds at bay. "Our barbed wire has disappeared under heaps of their dead," an officer reports. At 2300, the Communists withdraw. Weather still blocks out French tactical...
...plays by student actors is not only a great step in the revitalization of Harvard theatre; in the hands of the New Theatre Workshop it promises many afternoons of excellent entertainment. With yesterday's presentation of two notable one act plays, Stan's Girl, by Robert Schwarz, and The Eighth Day, by Andre Gregory, the Workshop scored another marked success...
Lack of understanding or vigor on the part of two central characters--Arthur Loeb as the Captain and Colgate Salisbury as Bellamy--weakened The Eighth Day. Self-consciously experimental to begin with, the play relied heavily on these two roles for continuity...
Gregory's handling of a complex idea, while not finally successful, made The Eighth Day the more interesting of the two productions...
...three-tenths of a second off sixth place in the 150-individual medley. Jorgensen's 53.8 made him seventh in the 100-yard free style, with teammates Ted Whatley and Gus Johnson ninth and tenth. Ralph Zani just missed qualifying in the breast stroke and Marshall Walter was eighth in the dive...