Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrorists' Jeeps and commandos with S.A.O. emblazoned on their helmets have been forced off the streets, which they call their "last bastion" and virtually controlled until last week. Commandeering Oran's five tallest buildings, French army machine-gunners gained the upper hand in the city's rooftop war. In Algiers. French patrols backed by armored cars and helicopters tirelessly stalked the downtown area with orders to shoot terrorists on sight. The army has been heavily reinforced: in Oran alone there are now 12,000 French troops, and last week the first units of the local military force...
...four years now, Soviet dancers have represented a sizable hunk of Impresario Sol Hurok's business. Since 1958, he has imported five companies,† toasted the dancers with champagne and caviar at hotel rooftop parties, and sent them off to the vast American steppes to spread cheer and make money. Last week a shy girl in a flowered robe and korsetki (a kind of satin juniper) stepped to the footlights at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house and uttered the words "Miz Ukraini" (We are from the Ukraine). Sol had brought...
Heroic Snafu. To smash Festung Ploesti, U.S. air planners came up with a novel plan : a daring low-level attack that completely violated the high-level strategic bombing canons of most top Air Forces brass. The planners reasoned that a rooftop raid would give the striking B-24 Liberators an element of surprise, limit the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe, and throw off the accuracy of flak gunners primed for high-level raiders. How they miscalculated is the core of Authors Dugan and Stewart's taut and gripping tale of a disastrous yet heroic snafu - pieced together from letters, diaries...
Oiled Streets. Ten thousand troops swarmed into Bab-el-Oued, and for the first time, a pitched battle was waged between the army and the S.A.O. The pieds-noirs fought stubbornly, hurling Molotov cocktails from apartment windows, aiming bazookas from the railings of balconies, taking potshots from behind rooftop pillboxes. Oil and soapy water were spread on the streets to spin the wheels of army vehicles. Soldiers advanced from doorway to doorway, crouched to fire from behind trash cans filled with uncollected garbage...
Hardest hit was the north German coast. Between Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven, the water quickly rose to rooftop level. As the dikes of Bremerhaven crumbled, water flooded the city's zoo, drowning all the caged animals. Hamburg lost both its light and power for two days, and in its modern underground garages, scores of automobiles disappeared beneath the oily waves. Driven from their holes by the floods, packs of rats fed on the carcasses of dead animals. Fearing the pollution of the water supply, authorities flew water in by helicopter to combat the threat of typhoid and cholera...