Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noirs of Bab-el-Oued ripped down the government's cease-fire posters featuring a Moslem and European child in friendly embrace and the legend "For our children, peace in Algeria." They also plastered the suburb with insulting placards warning French soldiers: "If you do not evacuate by midnight, you will be considered troops of an alien government." It was considered a piece of typical pied-noir bombast, but at dawn European snipers opened up from rooftops on army patrols. An army truck was ordered to halt by 20 uniformed Europeans. Instead, the driver stepped on the accelerator...
Taking off from Geneva at midnight (and so rapidly that the F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...
Lost Capacity. Fitzgerald was bent and almost broken with disappointment. His wife Zelda was slowly sinking into madness, and Turnbull does a moving and convincing reporter's job on tracing Zelda's decline from the brittlely gay young madcap who could bathe in the Plaza fountain at midnight to the hopeless schizophrenic that she became. As Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were...
Four days later, in a post-midnight TV address, Castro returned to the theme of the blunders of his own regime. "We have to increase public vigilance against errors and injustices," said Castro. "Some people think they are more revolutionary than anybody and have the right to mistreat and humiliate others." He singled out the notorious Revolutionary Defense Committees-spies stationed in every city block, in all factories and farms-for special censure. And then he made his attack categorical: "The revolution has to re-educate all the revolutionary nuclei, and needs to revise the entire political apparatus...
Commandeered for the annual benefit gala of the Union des Artistes (a sort of French Equity), Paris' one-ring Cirque d'Hiver acquired a second center of attention with the midnight entrance of Brigitte Bardot, 27. Combining the Empire look with what copycats in New York's Garment District currently push as the "proffered bosom," the tiara-topped screen queen was the focus of all eyes-save those of Playwright Marcel Achard, 61, an Academy "immortal" who was ensconced next to her in what appeared to be a state of stunned euphoria...