Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some point during the afternoon of the fourth day, Challe knew that the jig was up. As a last, desperate measure, he started passing out arms to civilians in Algiers. But the ultras were not eager to fight. As police loyal to De Gaulle and a regiment of Zouaves (a mixed French and Moslem light infantry outfit) moved into Algiers at 11 p.m., the ultra announcer on Radio Algiers cried: "We are being betrayed! To the Forum!" At the Forum, a large square in front of Algiers' General Government Building, a crowd of 25,000 diehard Europeans milled about...
Starts Wednesday: Sir Alec Guiness's least interesting film to date, TUNES OF GLORY casts him as the rough-neck unlovable colonel of a Scottish regiment in H. M. forces soon to be replaced by a tight-laced Sandhurst man. The elements of drama, yes--but precious few compounds result. Daily from...
...Sandhurst, Ionides tempered his rebel traits to the extent of graduating 153rd in a class of 155. He was delighted, since all he wanted of the army was free transportation to Africa to begin his career as a naturalist. The regiment went to India instead. When his application for transfer to Africa finally came through in 1926, Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with...
...sons becomes an army paymaster, and when his regiment is overrun by the enemy, he is too honest to turn over the cashbox. His captors are bribable, but Mother Courage haggles too long over the price, and the boy dies before the firing squad. Just before, Mother Courage has implied that she will do anything to save her son. It is characteristic Brechtian cynicism to stage a contest between greed and mother love, and have greed...
...HILL: Sir Alec Guiness py cinematic cliche about lry in a Scottish regiment, OF GLORY. With John enings...