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...North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist political parties were enough to keep order. One week's incidents in Morocco: pistol-packing Frenchman. In retaliation, a mob of Moroccans besieged the police station and beat a French officer to death. ¶ Armed rebels from across the border in Spanish Morocco, summoned by hilltop bonfires, captured four villages and hacked a French lieutenant to pieces with an ax. ¶ Inmates of an overcrowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Order First | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...appetite for live horseflesh. Last month he spotted another likely winner: a neurotic chestnut trotter named Fabliau, given to temper tantrums and the quaint habit of kicking his racing rig to pieces. After paying 80,000 francs for the horse, Auteroche spared him from the butcher's pistol, had him gelded instead. "The operation," he says proudly, "was a complete success. Fabliau is now so gentle he's a household pet. For company we've let him have a cow as a stable mate. I think the cow has a homey, comforting influence that makes him happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Butcher's Bets | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Roman court auction of confiscated goods, Italy's ailing Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti popped up as the only bidder for a treasured souvenir, a ,38-cal. pistol, plus four cartridges (one unfired), the implements of an assassination try made on Togliatti in 1948 by a Sicilian student. Going, going, gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

This race began what cross country coach Bill McCurdy has termed "the new look" refers to the "telegraphic meet," little used outside of rifle and pistol teams...

Author: By Winthrop P. Smith, | Title: McCurdy Originated Telegraphic Meets | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

...term "telegraphic meet" includes various means of communication between two teams competing at a distance. Although neither rifle, pistol, nor cross country teams have specifically used the telegraph, the wires have been subsidized by a few colleges, but particularly by civic organizations, such as YMCAs. The Crimson uses the U.S. mails...

Author: By Winthrop P. Smith, | Title: McCurdy Originated Telegraphic Meets | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

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