Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded by Elkins when he suspected a doublecross, Turner and Lambert spent three perilous months checking and double-checking the tale of the tapes. In the course of their investigation, they came to be called the Rover Boys by fellow newsmen, Fishface and Bug-Eyes by wary racketmen...
...busy at the War Office. Lieut. Moorhouse, Gaitskell learned, had led his platoon through the back streets of Port Said on a night raid in which nine Egyptian terrorists were rounded up. He had gone back alone to the scene of the arrest next morning in an open Land Rover. The car had been found deserted on a side street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent out search parties to comb every house in the district, but they found no sign of the young lieutenant. Francis Moorhouse's first instinct...
...Brussels, where he is attached to the British embassy, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, ex-suitor of Princess Margaret, announced that he has resigned from the R.A.F., effective next fall. His plans for the future: an 18-month, globe-girdling tour in a Land Rover (the British blowup of a jeep), driving wherever there is the semblance of a road, traveling between hemispheres by ship. He will journey alone. Purpose of the trip: "I just want...
...Hargrove seems to feel that he needs this thesis to write a fictional sequel to his famed funnybook of World War II, See Here, Private Hargrove. Fortunately, it scarcely clutters up the plot, and Author Hargrove is soon back on the grin-and-gripe days of basic. While the rover-boys-in-training-camp is not exactly fresh comedy material. The Girl He Left Behind is still good and sufficient grounds for an evening's trial separation from...
...they followed the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline eastward toward Teheran, open desert stretched for miles on either side, and there was no road of any kind, nothing but the pipeline to mark the route. Yet out of the blue came an Arab truck headed straight for the leading Land Rover, which hastily stopped. Swerving at the last moment, the Arab sideswiped it, tearing a rear fender, and drove on unconcerned...