Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Landing at Stanleyville in his Ilyushin-14 only minutes after the attack on the Globemaster's crew. Patrice Lumumba ignored the patches of blood on the runway, shouted to thousands of cheering ill-clad supporters: "I am very happy to see you in combat uniform ready to descend on Katanga." Back in Leopoldville. the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair...
Under Ten Flags (Dino de Laurentiis; Paramount), a somewhat better than fair sea-fight thriller, brings back to the screen the most feared man ever to wear the uniform of a British sailor. As Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton roasted the barnacles off Fletcher Christian 25 years ago, and he is still awesome as he bites off his words, chews them three times and then spits them out as if he did not like the taste. This time, as befits his age and rancor, Actor Laughton is a shore-based admiral who, toward the beginning of World War II. directs...
MOTORISTS flock to a Howard Johnson because they expect to find fairly uniform-if often bland-food, courteous-if not always swift-service, predictable and not too high prices, and clean rest rooms. Many customers are tugged in by their children, who make up 30% of Hojos' customers, are wooed with special bibs, bendable straws and their own menu...
...reporter of 16 when he got an exclusive interview with Eugene V. Debs, the labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate. Learning that Debs, just out of prison (for contempt of court), was hiding in a house near Galveston, Lasker borrowed a Western Union messenger's uniform and delivered a wire to the stormy labor leader: I AM NOT A MESSENGER BOY. I AM A YOUNG NEWSPAPER REPORTER. YOU HAVE TO GIVE A FIRST INTERVIEW TO SOMEBODY. WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT TO ME? IT WILL START ME ON MY CAREER. Vastly amused, Debs granted the interview...
Desperate to eke out his income, Ginger enlists as a driver for a diaper service called Tiny Ones. He dons a battle jacket, military cap, sky-blue trousers and knee-length rubber boots, but the uniform of the diaper corps is not enough camouflage. Some home-town Dubliners spot him on his route and gleefully fire off letters to the old country reporting the comeuppance of proud Ginger Coffey...