Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lively Zip Gun. Pole Vaulter Uelses, 24, was a virtual unknown-he had never cleared 15 ft.-when he showed up for last year's big winter meets. This year he is being courted by colleges (he gets out of the Marines next month), pursued by promoters, haunted by...
In the Cinema section [Feb. 2], you state that Joe Rosenthal's photo shows six marines raising the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi. I think you have done the U.S. Navy an injustice. One of the flag raisers, who survived the bloody battle and was...
The Outsider (Universal-International). The most famous photograph of World War II was Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize picture of six marines planting the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Three of the marines were later killed on Iwo; the...
In Lebanon, the insurrection was more ambitious, recalling for awhile the 1958 civil war in which Christian President Camille Chamoun's government was in conflict with pro-Nasser Moslems until U.S. Marines restored order. When the dust settled, Chamoun stepped down and both Christians and Moslems united behind the...
Unlikely Go-Betweens. Thus ended an explosive, six-week crisis verging often near the flash point of civil war. Last month Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria-with an assist from Washington, which stationed warships and marines off the Dominican coast-became heroes for a day by blocking a comeback coup by...