Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Sumatra. Colonel Simbolon, the rebel Foreign Minister, had set out for Medan from the rebel capital of Bukittinggi, but his 100-truck column was bogged down by monsoon rains that caused landslides and washed away bridges. Another rebel column from Tapanuli was stopped dead by a government regiment that was supposed to switch over to the rebels but did not. Djakarta gleefully announced that the remnants of Nangolan's command were cornered on the eastern shore of Lake Toba...
...pitiable need to search for whatever goads some men to bravery-has got hold of one medal candidate. Thorn gets permission to escort him, and whomever else he finds worthy of the medal, back to the rear-area encampment at Cordura. Next day he watches his old regiment clatter through a last cavalry charge, and with judgment perhaps clouded by shame, picks the four most spectacular performers of the battle to receive the medal. With his five picked soldiers and a saddle-toughened woman prisoner of war, he begins the long ride to Cordura...
...Patrolling the Algerian side of the Tunisian border early one morning, Captain Rene Allard and 43 men of France's 23rd Infantry Regiment came under heavy mortar fire. Before long, 15 Frenchmen lay dead. The rebels, Allard later reported, had launched their attack from nearby Tunisia, were accompanied by vehicles of theTunisian National Guard. When French reinforcements arrived, the Algerians fled back into Tunisia, carrying with them four French prisoners...
...Costumer Karinska, who traditionally arrives, cavalrylike, just as Balanchine is about to burn, outdid herself by producing the outfits several hours before curtain time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double in-the-air turns to Arranger Hershy Kay's combination of Sousa's The Thunderer and The Gladiator...
...picture is based on the late Humphrey Cobb's novel, a bestseller in 1935 and one of the most powerful antimilitaristic tracts inspired by World War I. The story tells what happened before, during and after an attack by a French regiment on the Western Front. The attack was suggested by the corps commander (Adolphe Menjou) merely as a means of fortifying his personal reputation. It was ordered by the division commander (George Macready). mostly out of vanity and the desire to ingratiate. The attack was impossible from the start, and it failed disastrously-one whole company, for instance...