Word: lice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scapegoat for their setback and chose General Franchet d'Esperey (the British called him "Desperate Frankie"), then commander of the northern armies in France. He was exiled to Macedonia. An egotistical but forceful general, D'Esperey promptly got the 350,000-man force out of its lice-ridden trenches. He struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade, Budapest and Vienna...
CLOAK OF MYSTERY (NBC 9-10 p.m.) Repeat of "The Fugitive Eye, with Charl ton Heston playing a one-eyed circus strongman who attempts to convince po lice he has spotted a corpse moldering in a car and three gravediggers working nearby...
...away, he started playing furiously on a piano which had been left standing by the road." Each morning, at a prison camp where Von Lehndorff worked, the dead -stripped naked by the living-were stacked outside the barracks. One man was brought into the camp hospital "so covered with lice that you could compare him only with an ant hill." But Von Lehndorffs diary is far from just a catalogue of horrors. He encountered kindness as well as cruelty, and was often treated more humanely by the Russians than by treacherous fellow Germans who tried to ingratiate themselves with their...
...Humphrey want Fritz Mondale? The son of a Methodist minister, Mondale worked part of his way at St. Paul's Macalester College for a canning company, inspecting peas for lice. He soon decided that this kind of life did not appeal to him. Turning to politics, Mondale attached himself to the cause of then Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey, helped Hubert carry a traditionally Republican district in his 1948 Senate campaign...
...confession, but not the kind in which remorse is pretended. Genet's self-revelation is mischievous, unrepentant, and not to be trusted. Genet strokes his central paradox-that total degradation can produce spiritual exaltation-as if it were a pet cat. Speaking of his beggar's lice, he says: "Having become -as useful for the knowledge of our decline as jewels for the knowledge of what is called triumph, the lice were precious...