Word: outposts
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...troops, but they did not always please British commanders-notably General Thomas Gage, whose light infantry showed up poorly in comparison with the bush fighters, who had become known as "Rogers' Rangers." Gage became Rogers' lifelong enemy, and years later, when the New Hampshire man commanded the outpost at Michilimackinac on Lake Michigan, Gage was to bring a wholly unfounded charge of treason against...
Under a leaden sky last week. 50 impatient newsmen gathered at the small outpost called Foothills on the border of Assam state and the North-East Frontier Agency. A light drizzle fell on a detail of the small-statured soldiers of the Assam Rifles. A knot of Indian government officials shifted position in the muddy street as they awaited the appearance of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had now been more than a month on the trail-14 days in making his escape from the pursuing Red Chinese in Tibet (TIME, April 20), and a more leisurely 18 days...
Kenyatta was not yet a free man. From his cell near the Sudan border, he and five Mau Mau extremists were hustled under close guard to the tiny government outpost of Lodwar. There, in the empty, arid northern frontier district, 216 miles from the nearest town, Kenyatta will live in exile in two rooms, cooking his own government-supplied food. He may roam the local area, but must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will...
...surprisingly, little that is really calamitous happens to Fort Lauderdale or its student invaders. During his coffee break, one defender of the law was able, without looking very hard, to arrest five students for sousing in public. But last weekend, as police prepared to abandon their beach outpost until next season, their blotter listed few cases of more serious wrongdoing. The townspeople regard the invasion with edgy amusement; student-watching has become a local sport...
Like Eisenhower and the atomic bomb, Montreal never amounted to much until the Second World War really got going. The power elite of the town consisted largely of Calvinists who combined a shrewd commercial instinct with an outpost gentility that led them to construct large Presbyterian churches and to dress for dinner...