Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donohue captained his high school varsity, and will be a solid team leader, if he lives up to the standards of his most recent performances. Several times this season, he was responsible for the hustling defense and occasionally brilliant fast breaks that marked most of the varsity's efforts, especially in Ivy League play...
...Kassem in Baghdad, asking permission to use troops to keep order. Kassem hedged. At this point, apparently on impulse, Shawaf decided to put into effect a revolt that was only half-formed in his mind. His fifth brigade, loyal to him, rounded up 300 Peace Partisans. He ordered the leader of the parading Communists, Kamil Kazanchi, a well-known Baghdad politico and lawyer, shot...
...newspapers. Maria Schell was moving enough as Maria, but the sentimentally written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael. But in a far too slowly paced production, it was only Pablo, the broken guerrilla leader, who became a really moving figure; as played by Nehemiah Persoff, the wreck of a once brave man had touches of real tragedy, and strangely, the coward's lines rang truer, more human than the surrounding heroics...
Follow the Leader. Though the company gave no details about its six-cylinder, 108 in.-wheelbase car, it is known to be seriously considering producing an economy-size Edsel for the 1961 model year in addition to the compact car. It already has clay-model prototypes of a conventional-size Edsel and a compact Edsel. The compact Edsel would be a slightly larger version of next fall's compact Ford, might be brought out under another name in 1961 if Ford decides to continue producing the standard Edsel. The small Edsel or its counterpart could take the place...
...agelong struggle against the sea there has been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...