Word: morland
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Freelance Writer Howard Morland is a man with a cause. An activist in nuclear disarmament, he has often lectured and written on the subject. After visiting various federal nuclear facilities with the cooperation of the U.S. Government, he wrote an article, illustrated with diagrams, that tells how to build the most powerful weapon known to man: the H-bomb. Last week the article itself set off an explosion...
Died. Peter Morland Churchill, 63, top British agent with the French Resistance during World War II; of spinal cancer; in Cannes, France. Churchill made four clandestine trips (two by submarine, two by parachute) into German-occupied France. On his fourth mission, he and his aide, Odette Sansom, were captured by the Gestapo and tortured. They were spared from execution because the Germans believed they were married and related to Winston Churchill (they were neither). Reunited at war's end, they did marry, and their wartime exploits were made the subject of the 1951 movie Odette...