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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sultan Mohammed V) was cruising in the Mediterranean last week when Addi learned that a new government appointed judge was on his way to Tafilalet. The judge arrived by air in Midelt, a mountain village built around an old red clay crenelated fortress in a cedar forest below the snow-capped Atlas peaks. Addi gave the signal, and some 3,000 Berber horsemen clad in white-and-brown burnooses swept down on Midelt. They quickly surrounded the fortress, captured the Rabat-appointed judge and 18 local policemen...
...Moroccan state radio broadcast a royal proclamation declaring that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez armes!" cried Addi. The ..warriors snapped to attention, then let their rifles fall to the ground, a symbol of surrender. The ceremony was followed...
Three Medals. At Cortina last winter, Toni cut a noticeable slice out of Russia's spectacular march down the ski trails. Standing just a little straighter than his rivals, demonstrating a spectacular sense of balance and feel for the snow, he won a gold medal in all three Alpine events (giant slalom, slalom and downhill). He is expected to win this season's big downhill honors in Europe and plans to come to the U.S. this month to race at Aspen, Colo, and Stowe...
...appearances, the patient was dead on arrival, evidently from a heart attack. William Fruehling, 49, of St. Croix Falls, Wis. (pop. 1,500), a village handyman, had been helping to take a snow plow off a truck in zero weather just after lunch when he collapsed, half in and half out of the cab of his truck. A fellow worker had found him, wrestled the 200-lb. null onto the seat of the truck and drove it a quarter-mile to St. Croix Memorial Valley Hospital...
While temperatures are not as uncomfortable as they have been, the present low-20-degree weather will keep snow on the ground, to hamper post-exam travelling. Students will note Winter's clever timing in bringing record low temperature days as Harvard returned from the holidays, and now in assuring difficult exit from cold, damp Cambridge...