Word: mil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From government headquarters, the rioting spread through the Anglicized Egyptian capital of Cairo, a city of two mil lion people. Frenzied mobs wreaked their vengeance on the oases of the hated Brit ish wherever they found them. Virtually every bar that catered to Westerners was wrecked. Three British-and American-owned movie theaters were set afire. Barclays Bank and several British-run clothing stores went up in flames. The sacrosanct Turf Club was invaded, its furnishings smashed, its building set afire, its precious liquor spilled. Even famed Shepheard's Hotel was swept up in the holocaust...
...really the result of foul play. Milland's hunt for the killer takes him to the Welsh coal pits, the highlands of Scotland, the English countryside, the streets of London. The tour has genuine atmosphere, but the story lacks pace and imagination, and gains no lift from Mil-land's romantic side trip with Britain's Patricia...
...summoned to account for the four Communist fugitives is one of the oddest specimens in the Communists' menagerie. Tall, intense Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 46, is the millionaire son of mil and the party's most dependable angel. His millionaires, great-great-grandfather was the profane steamboater and railroad builder, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Civil Rights Congress bail fund, of which Field is secretary, has handed over about $450,000 in bail money for the beleaguered Communists in the past three years. He is a registered foreign agent, as a lobbyist for Communist China. Congress cited him for contempt...
...27th running of the mile-and-a-six-teenth Wood, the East's final Derby test. Despite the fact that he practically trains himself, had apparently reached his peak a month too soon, and had run a disappointing eighth against much the same field the previous week, UNCLE MIL TIE, was backed into even-money favoritism. Neglected at 13-to-2 was REPETOIRE, a game chestnut colt with a misspelled name who was not bred to run very far, but has managed to win all four of his 1951 starts...
...telephone calls. Most members of Congress seem to feel the same way about him. Even when it is intent on boiling him 11 oil or chopping his authority out from under him, the Congress experiences a strange melting sensation around the icy fringes of its will power whenever Mil Di Salle paddles up to Capitol Hill to testify...