Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ride of the Navajos. His son, William Blankenship Jr., was 15: a handsome, blond six-footer who played football, did well in Mount St. Michael Academy, wanted to go to the Air Force Academy. He was walking to an evening movie with a friend when a gang of leather-jacketed toughs called the Navajos swarmed around, yelling: "Do you live around here? Aren't you in the Golden Guineas?" The Navajos and Golden Guineas are rival gangs; young Bill Blankenship belonged to neither. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said...
...guns and backed by militia. These would be backed, in turn, by six armored divisions based in Germany itself. The NATO divisions would remain on the Rhine. Germans are interested in defending their homes, he said, but not in retreating through their own territory until the NATO forces could mount a counterattack. But the political appeal of his plan -which finally led to his dismissal-was that the Germans would thereby have a "detachable" army which could maneuver, either militarily or politically, independent of NATO. With such an army a strong Germany might, in time, make its own deal with...
...some 20,000 extras and a 300,000-gallon tank filled with water to play the Red Sea, is budgeted at $8,000,000. But the film version of the story of Moses from the time he is taken from the bulrushes until, a bearded old man, he climbs Mount Nebo, is expected, almost literally, to run forever in movie houses throughout the world. The picture will take at least 3½ hours to play and Paramount hopefully estimates that it will gross as much as $100 million...
...Mount Holyoke Expands...
Meanwhile, Roswell G. Ham, president of Mount Holyoke College, announced plans for a dormitory expansion that would accommodate 80 more students in the 1956-57 academic year. Mount Holyoke's current enrollment is about 1200, so the increase will amount to slightly less than seven percent...