Word: noms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sage Reminder. What sort of names? In 1967 the French Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames...
...Tuesday," reported TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, "an army patrol in the Turf Lodge area brought in what looked like much of the arms stock of C Company, 1st Battalion of the I.R.A.'s Belfast Brigade, complete with a framed coat of arms giving the company commander's nom de guerre as Martin Forsythe. A patrol had entered the house on Norglen Crescent shortly after 2 a.m. A boy opened the door and immediately admitted that arms were hidden inside. Sure enough, twelve rifles were neatly stacked in a cupboard, and about 6,000 rounds of ammunition were stashed...
...winners of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships are: Steven Berzin '71-4 of Leverett House and St Nom Labreteche, France; Michael Donnelly '71-4 of Dunster House and Rockville, Md.; Kenneth Haas '72 of Eliot House and New York: Bruce Johnson '72 of Eliot House and Shaker Heights, Ohio: Glenn Most '72 of Eliot House and New York: Timothy Peltason '72 of Leverett House and Urbana, Ill.; Phillip Rapoport '72 Dudley House and Great Neck, N.Y.: and Jon Rosenberg '72 of Currier House and Pittsburgh, Penn...
Arnheiter had served brilliantly (1960-63) in a Pentagon propaganda shop, and once, at the Navy's request, wrote and published a book under a cold war nom de guerre-the purported first-person account by a Russian naval commander of his threatening undersea exploits in a Soviet submarine. Its aim was to scare readers enough to encourage larger congressional appropriations for the Navy...
Died. Tamanoumi, 27, one of two reigning grand champions in the ancient and immensely popular Japanese sport of sumo (wrestling); of a heart attack following an appendectomy; in Tokyo. At 5 ft. 9 in. and 297 Ibs., Tamanoumi (a self-given nom de guerre meaning "Sea of Gems") was often dwarfed by the behemoths who dominate sumo. He suffered frequent injuries as he climbed to the top, but always recovered; "I am like a phoenix," he often said. His dazzlingly cunning techniques in the ring wowed sumo aficionados time and again. When out of combat, he was a swinging celebrity...