Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressed by his aggressiveness-'I was always reaching out and taking anything I could get my hands on"-the home office finally put Russell on the executive escalator. Shortly before Pearl Harbor he was named assistant to President A. D. McDonald, proceeded to ram through, against the judgment of his superiors, decisions on equipment allocation that enabled the S.P. to haul more freight for the Pacific war than any other railroad. In 1952, when the S.P. needed a new president, the board inevitably turned to Don Russell, who, at 51, became the line's youngest chief since...
...full-scale attack on the town of Bizerte itself, which commands the narrow entrance to the Bay of Bizerte (see map). Rocket-carrying planes swiftly blasted out the Tunisians' few artillery posts. Tanks and tough paratroopers pushed into the city from the south; marines swarmed ashore on the harbor side in landing craft, as three French cruisers lurked offshore. The Tunisians fought raggedly through the streets, but they were no match for French striking power. Bizerte was quickly in French hands...
...going to end; beginnings are just like pulling straws." She filled in the rest in "batches and binges" in Baton Rouge, La., Yaddo and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Reno, Denver, Hollywood, Manhattan, Roxbury, Conn., last month finished up in a glass-enclosed sun porch that overlooks the harbor in Pigeon Cove, Mass. by adding 20 words to the final page...
...camera is an awkward renderer of wry legends; it is a sousaphone, not a lyre. Another part is on-location filming-Logan paid too much attention to the location. As the movie begins, the camera swoops down for an aerial view of the blue, cluttered, ever-so-quaint Marseilles harbor. From that point the viewer is a tourist, charmed by the view, worried about losing his traveler's checks, and naggingly certain that he will never be allowed to see what the natives are really like. It is unfair to Actors Caron and Buchholz, who are pleasant people...
Died. Rear Admiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, 71, brash, bristly intelligence and psychological warfare expert, a self-styled World War II Cassandra who claimed to have predicted Pearl Harbor nine months in advance, and to have ferreted out a Japanese surrender feeler 13 days before Hiroshima, yet never convinced the Navy's topside of either story; of a heart attack; in West Springfield...