Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empire Holder: As Chief of Staff after France's liberation, directed the slow rebuilding of his country's army. In 1947 appointed Resident-General in Morocco, where a nationalist movement threatened French rule. "Morocco," he said, "has a right to be independent. But independence must wait until Morocco is ready." Applied a policy of military firmness to assure French control. He stuck with the Moroccan job after Eisenhower picked him for NATO, explaining, "I'd like to have things in order before I leave." Now he feels ready for the new post...
...clear that his side still insisted on a more defensible line, approximating present battle positions, but that he was willing to discuss some compromise. One day, after Joy had stated his position, Nam II sat silent for two hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch. Joy bore the "Big Silence" (as U.N. reporters dubbed it) with fortitude. Finally, he suggested that, since the buffer zone question was at an impasse, the negotiators take up some other agenda item. Nam II refused. He would not even show...
Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
...than a professor. Almost any day you can see him walking through the Yard with a group of students. He will be wearing his light green top coat and pulled-down hat. In one hand he will be carrying his brief case, and in the other his inevitable cigarette-holder. He likes music and the theatre, but "Working with people is my major interest, so that's how I spend most of my time. My teaching isn't separate from my life." Now that his course has become well-established at Harvard, Cabot wants to interest other schools...
Yale's varsity, holder of the Cup, is the favored boat. The Elis boast of Victories over M.I.T., Penn, and Columbia, while Harvard has defeated M.I.T. twice and Dartmouth once. Yale's margin of victory over the Engineers three weeks ago was four seconds, however, compared to the Crimson's one second win last Saturday. The Tigers have also defeated Penn...