Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with the Allies...
...Luis Moscardó, put the boy on the phone to talk to his father. The conversation: "Papa." "What is it, my son?" "They say they will shoot me if you don't surrender." "Then commend your soul to God, cry Viva España, and die like a patriot." "A big kiss, papa." "A big kiss, my son." Within ten minutes, the Loyalists shot young Moscard...
...informal University marathon team will enter the Patriot's Day Boston Marathon tomorrow. Starting the 26 mile race at 12 noon will be Gabe Mirkin, a trophy winner in the 10 1/2 mile Cathedral Run, Bob Holmes '57, who placed in the Hyde Shoe 12-miler, Eric Segal, a member of the track team, and Jim Doty, a shot putter who weighs around 250 pounds but has decided to test his endurance. Although there have been many finishers from the College, a Harvard man has yet to win a medal by finishing among the top 35 in the traditional Marathon...
...Patriot's Proof. At a time when critics from Reykjavik to London to New Delhi are potshotting at the U.S., there was very little freshness in Mollet's words; the newness was that they should come from the mouth of a French Premier. Only three weeks before, Mollet's Foreign Minister and Fellow Socialist Christian Pineau had made a calculatingly indiscreet speech suggesting that there was no longer a common purpose in Western foreign policy (TIME, March 12). Behind such taunts and twists were a whole hatful of political factors, not the least Mollet...
Practicing the virtues of a true Christian, together with the duties of a perfect gentleman and patriot, President Eisenhower's tested leadership inspires confidence and trust. All those who toil for a peaceful world will wish him Godspeed in a second term of office...