Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flame over India (Rank; 20th Century-Fox). The time is 1905, the place is India's wild northwest frontier, and the situation is jolly awkward. There in an isolated outpost sits a smallish British garrison, surrounded by hordes of Moslem tribesmen howling for the blood of a five-year-old Hindu rajah, the local British puppet. Any minute the walls may fall, and to make matters worse, Delhi cables a command: get the boy to Kalapur, and get him there fast. But 300 miles of rebel-infested territory lie between the fort and Kalapur, and in crossing...
...student explosion that blasted South Korea's Syngman Rhee out of his palace flashed across Asia, and ignited undergraduate riots in Turkey, another key outpost of the West...
When a torrential rain turned the crust of dust to gumbo, Brazil's officials gave up and retreated. Back to Rio went Finance Minister Sebastião Paes de Almeida, leaving behind an eight-man outpost. Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto sat in Rio signing documents datelined Brasilia and confidentially told visitors: "Officially, I'm in Brasilia." Of eleven Ministers who originally appeared, eight departed. After a quick ten-minute inaugural session, the Supreme Court recessed to June 30; the Senate, without furniture, recessed to June...
...spot is the United Arab Republic's Minister Mohamed El Tabei, 44. a round-shouldered little man with darting eyes. An army judge advocate who hitched himself to Nasser's star, Tabei turned up a year ago to open the U.A.R.'s first fulltime diplomatic outpost in Panama. Despite the fact that commercial relations between the U.A.R. and Panama are so minuscule that they are not even listed in world trade reports, he brought three staffers from Cairo, hired a dozen more Panamanians once he arrived...
...with scholarly awe that only one procedure would clean up the department: fire all hands, start over. Mob murders go unsolved as in Capone's reign, and petty bribery of traffic cops is the accepted procedure (Comedian Mort Sahl describes Chicago's Outer Drive as "the last outpost of collective bargaining"). But last week Chicago's cops got a new boss, and the legend of irresistible corruption ran into a legend of immovable rectitude...