Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebel camp somewhere in the hilly wilds of Algeria, CBS Correspondent Frank Kearns faced a camera and began: "Here on the spot it sounds rather ridiculous to hear Washington-" He was interrupted by a cry of warning. He squinted at the sky, his shoulders hunched instinctively and he dived for shelter, suddenly heedless of any TV audience as he muttered in disgust: "Here comes a damn plane!" The interruption made a vivid TV fragment this week in Algeria Aflame, an hour-long CBS report that brought home, with the immediacy of an air raid, the war between the French...
...Moral Grounds." In TV's most ambitious effort to get the rebels' side of the story at first hand, Kearns and Cameraman Yousef Masraff entered Algeria through the nationalist supply line from Tunisia, hiked for 22 days and nights 175 miles into the mountains with a rebel unit that slipped through the French forces, shared the hazards and discomforts of guerrilla warfare-and the risk that the French, who recognize no war, would recognize no war correspondents...
...rebel commanders in Algeria, none has given the French more trouble than handsome Yacef Saadi, the 29-year-old ex-baker who for nearly two years hcs been chief of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front) in the city of Algiers. Within the labyrinthine depths of Algiers' Casbah, Yacef and his mistress, an Algerian law student named Zohra Drif, were uncrowned monarchs. Under the very nose of French police and paratroopers, Yacef collected "taxes," dispensed his own justice, and organized the bloody bombing attacks of cafés and streets that have kept Algiers' French edgy for months...
High-Kneed Unison. The Black Watch opened in Washington (where it stirred its audiences to exuberant Dixie rebel yells), moved into jampacked Madison Square Garden, last week skirled through Canada and New York State before heading for points west. Even for a non-Scots observer, the Watch has swank. First off come the trumpeters and the regimental band playing Great Little Army and wearing the somber kilts that gave the Watch its name when it mustered for its first parade on the banks of the River...
...Little Unnerving." Of the six lively colleges, the liveliest is Antioch (no church affiliation), the able, articulate rebel against academic convention. "This is the most exciting campus in America," boasts President Samuel Gould. "We can actually try out ideas in education. If they fall flat, there's no one to claw you to bits...