Word: hilltop
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...than 200 sets of plans and photographs before they made their choice. The runaway winners, announced in Washington this week: the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, which not only got a First Honor Award for its $258,000 "Thinkers' Shangri-La"- the Ford Foundation's hilltop Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, near Stanford University-but also picked up two merit awards for houses in Stockton and Sausalito, Calif...
...Taza, a town in the Atlas foothills, paid with his life for being overargumentative with a pistol-packing Frenchman. In retaliation, a mob of Moroccans besieged the police station and beat a French officer to death. ¶ Armed rebels from across the border in Spanish Morocco, summoned by hilltop bonfires, captured four villages and hacked a French lieutenant to pieces with an ax. ¶ Inmates of an overcrowded Casablanca prison attacked their wardens. Three prisoners were killed...
...truck past the El Auja crossroads. Their target was an Egyptian outpost that was set on the lower slopes of an Egyptian hill but inside the demilitarized Israeli territory. A network of trenches, gun emplacements and barbed-wire barricades linked the forward post with stronger Egyptian positions around the hilltop...
...jackal howled as the Israeli troops fanned out to feint at the Egyptian flanks. As a flare burst over the 1,400-ft. hilltop, the Jewish infantry crawled past boulders to the attack. It was a hand-to-hand bayonet fight. The Egyptians resisted fiercely, and the hilltop did not fall until past midnight. By that time an Egyptian battalion spearheaded by eight tanks rolled up from the rear to counterattack. The Israelis said they knocked out two tanks before withdrawing downhill and into their own territory. They listed five dead, 18 wounded. They claimed 50 Egyptians killed, 49 taken...
Bundled into an airplane with his two wives and a favorite concubine, Ben Youssef was whisked off to exile, now lives in Madagascar in a hilltop hotel, where he daily complains of the cold. Uninspiring in office, Ben Youssef in exile has become a national martyr. Many simple Moroccans claim to see his face in the full moon...