Word: stalag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart of Kingston on a conspicuous compound containing both trial chambers and prison cells. With its guard towers and barbed-wire fences painted bloodred, the "rehabilitation center" looks like a Hollywood back-lot version of a World War II concentration camp. Some Kingston residents even refer to it as "Stalag...
Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 with William Holden and Otto Preminger, Friday, March...
...native Cincinnatian, Kennedy graduated from Notre Dame in 1955, was soon drafted and sent to Japan. An "entertainment specialist," he directed his Army buddies in such plays as Inherit the Wind and Stalag 17 and after leaving the service, he joined a summer-stock cast of Mr. Roberts. Kennedy next appeared in Chicago as a real-life police reporter with the City News Bureau. "They would have paid me $35 a week," he said, "but I had a college degree...
...Stalag Diaries. After one dismal lunch of rice with rice, the newsmen formed a committee to help run the hotel. Heading the committee was Michael Adams, a former Middle East correspondent for the Guardian who now heads a pro-Arab lobby in London and who was in Amman to negotiate the release of the hijack hostages. Adams drew on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany to organize the correspondents. Though they included some major byliners from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and other countries, they set about cleaning toilets and performing other menial chores. Los Angeles Timesman...
...restricted to the hotel, we had a great deal to write about. From our windows on the war and from a couple of quick expeditions into the streets, we were able to piece together a partial picture of the fighting. Some of us also kept diaries of life inside "Stalag Intercontinental." In the occasional lulls, the sound of typewriters could be heard all over the building. Friendly embassies accepted some pool copy when we could get it to them. But not until the first newsmen were evacuated from the Jordanian capital last week were we able to fulfill our assignments...