Word: lancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd parallel. But in 1902, in order to avoid splitting tribes in the Wadi Haifa...
...clock each morning Harry Truman is tooling his green-and-cream Royal Lancer Dodge through the heavy interurban traffic on Truman Road from Independence to his five-room office in Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank Building. He keeps three secretaries working full time, spends about $5,000 a month keeping up with the duties of an ex-President. All his expenses come out of his own pocket, but Truman was one of the few U.S. Presidents to save money in office, has since picked up some handsome fees, e.g., from LIFE and Doubleday for his bestselling memoirs, from...
Prince Rainier cabled an order to Monaco to bar all journalists from the civil and religious ceremonies except for three "official" photographers (two Monegasques and U.S. Free Lancer Howell Conant a friend of Grace...
...James Aronson, 40, executive editor of the National Guardian, who worked for the Times in 1946-48. ¶ Richard 0. Boyer, 52, free lancer who has contributed profiles to The New Yorker and also written for the Daily Worker. ¶ William A. Price, 35, police reporter who has worked for the New York Daily News since 1940 except for 4½ years as a wartime Navy flyer. He refused to answer questions on Communist activities-or to take the Fifth. Daily News Executive Editor Richard Clarke promptly fired Price by telegram, charging that his conduct at the hearing had "destroyed...
...written by guys who don't know anything about the subject. A kid who goes in cold to cover a labor convention may make it sing." Because of his own talent for going in cold to tackle a top story, Ed Lahey, who calls himself a "paid free lancer," has roved the world in recent years on top stories, e.g., early attempts to depose Peron in Argentina this year, Guatemala's anti-Communist uprising in 1954, and South Africa's explosive racial tension...