Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inconclusive Claims. Amidst the talk, shooting continued along the ill-defined border of the Western Sahara. Back and forth went the battle for two tiny desert wells that each side claimed as its own, Hassi Beida and Tinjoub. As the Algerian troops inched forward across the windswept, desolate battlefield, it appeared to one Bible-versed correspondent that men were "as trees walking."* The Algerians had no radios; orders were simply shouted back and forth, echoing clearly across the valley to the Moroccans. "Hey, Mohammed, give them a blast with the 75 recoilless rifle. That's right...
...when the football gets even with the boys who kick it around. "Upset Saturday," it is called, and last week was it. At Madison, Wis., Ohio State punched across a touchdown with 2 min. 13 sec. to go and edged No. 2-ranked Wisconsin, 13-10. At Evanston, Ill., 150-Ib. Halfback Sherman Lewis picked off a pass for one TD, bolted 87 yds. for another, and Michigan State downed No. 9-ranked Northwestern, 15-7. North Carolina State beat Duke for the first time since 1946, 21-7, and Stanford clobbered Notre Dame, 24-14, for the first time...
Backbone Added. In 1937 Home became Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary. It was he who handed the Prime Minister Hitler's message setting up the Munich meeting in 1938, and Home accompanied his boss to the ill-fated conference. The Home family motto is True to the End, and Home still defends Chamberlain's at tempt to make a deal with Hitler. "Chamberlain," he says, "hated Hitler and Fascism, but he felt that Europe in general and Britain in particular were in even greater danger from Communism." In wartime, Major Lord Home was invalided...
...that military rule was to blame even for crop failures and that "heaven does not favor leaders of short stature and intense nature." Candidate Park criss crossed the country by limousine, chartered an airliner and private railroad car, occasionally made noises about greater independence from the U.S. He was ill at ease in civvies and proved a dull campaigner, once interrupted a speech to plead: "Please give me some applause so that I can take heart...
...predictable split-second schedule, practically everything goes wrong. At the climax, Old Wave Director Henri Verneuil achieves a scene that is a gem of understatement. Plopped down at poolside like a bull walrus minus his tusks and a billion clams, Veteran Actor Gabin blinks goodbye to his ill-gotten gains, filling the moment with memorable stupefaction. Best side bets of Any Number Can Win are glimpses of the human flotsam and jetsam beached on the Riviera, but all in all it is a cinematic gamble that never quite pays...