Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bella still alive? Nasser's chief aide, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, flew from Cairo to ask Boumedienne if he could see his old pal and "be assured of his safety." "Believe me," replied Boumedienne, "we would grant this request if Ben Bella were not in a place far from Algiers. But we guarantee his safety." When Amer then suggested that Ben Bella be exiled to Egypt, promising that he would not be allowed to plot a comeback, Boumedienne refused...
...soldier of the regiment." In 1958 he was shipped to Turkey and assigned to a U.S. communications center in Ankara. When he bought a tape recorder at the PX and resold it to a Turkish citizen, Baldwin broke Turkish law; when he sold a second tape recorder for a pal, the pal backed out of the deal, and Baldwin qualified for a court-martial for "larceny." At his army trial, he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment (later rescinded), a bad-conduct discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and reduction from specialist fourth class to private...
...wrong. His trouble was that he was a compulsive clown, a tendency he blames on his eccentric dental structure, a hereditary trait with the Hoar-Stevenses. He had little thought of working until he was 27, since "my father bought my clothes and women and things." But then a pal persuaded him to take a crack at the films...
...gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets are there all right; even in his casual correspondence, Fred Allen could not resist the comic muse, whether diagnosing his own health ("I find myself winded after raising my hat to a lady acquaintance") or commiserating with a toothless pal, who "has been living by sucking the butter off asparagus." Freelance Writer Joe McCarthy, who claims to have edited this collection, did no such thing...
...Same Old Story. As a belated result, last week James Mintkenbaugh and an old pal, Army Sergeant Robert Lee Johnson, 43, were arrested as spies. It was, according to an FBI complaint filed in Alexandria, Va., the same old squalid story. In February 1953 Johnson, then stationed in Berlin with Army Intelligence, made contact with the Russians at their East Berlin headquarters, agreed to photograph classified documents for them in return for $300 a month. A few months later, Johnson recruited Mintkenbaugh, also in the Army in Berlin, to work with him. A male Russian agent named "Paula" gave Mintkenbaugh...