Word: rommels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manfred Rommel, Stuttgart mayor and son of "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel: "It's sad for the German people that they must admit it was better to lose in war than win. But we have to admit it. It would have been terrible had Hitler...
...Edwin Rommel, 50, of Utica, N.Y., on the other hand, already knows what a million looks like. In 1958 Rommel and lis family started collecting pennies in a glass jar. By last Thanksgiving he reached his goal of 1 million, which he stored in rolls of 50 in a footlocker. Last week the penny pincher deposited the 3½ tons of coppers in a bank, and promptly wrote out a check for a $7,500 Cadillac...
...particular became international political threats, Western governments have created special units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport...
...nostalgic glimpses of World War II movies - Casablanca, The Purple Heart, The Longest Day - are equally disconcerting. The film interweaves clips indiscriminately, as if James Mason as Rommel in The Desert Rats were as valid a reflection of the African cam paign as authentic shots of Rommel himself. Director Winslow's cheapest shot is a reverse-action sequence depicting the German retreat: to the tune of Get Back, Hitler is made to cha cha cha back and forth like the cat in the Purina Cat Chow commercial...
...camels nearly as brilliant in their trappings. We filled the valley to its banks with our flashing stream." The cleanness of desert warfare was powerful enough as a myth to survive two world wars: the ghosts of Lawrence and his camels did much for the popularity of Rommel, Montgomery and their tanks...