Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks. To help his children trace his travels, Ed hung an airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip, RM lined up the kids, varying in age from almost three to 20, for a briefing session on father Ogle's latest assignment. Once, when a uranium rush took him to Lake Athabaska in northern Saskatchewan, which would be about four inches above...
Three days later Peter Szanto, full-fledged Freedom Fighter, fought in the biggest tank battle of the revolution. When word reached the barracks that Russian tanks were coming, the colonel ordered complete quiet. The tanks came close to the barracks wall, but no one stirred. Some infantry appeared and shot up the building, but the Freedom Fighters did not return the fire. Finally there were 20 tanks, some 75 infantrymen, a truck, and an armored car outside the barracks. "Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw...
...Freedom Fighters forayed out to do battle. A week later the Soviet army returned in strength and tried to blast the Freedom Fighters out of Kilian barracks. Peter Szanto was one of the last to leave. He came out through a hole in the back wall after a delegation of local people had pleaded with the Fighters to stop the battle because the neighborhood was in ruins. When he reached home, Peter learned that the AVH had been around asking questions about him. His wife had said that he was at work, but at the truck depot he learned that...
...Producer-Actor Robert Montgomery, Chambered Nautilus is currently on exhibit in Manhattan's Whitney Museum Annual. Four and a half months in the painting, it is a real Wyeth tour de force. Its breeze-blown, transparent valances swaying from the old-fashioned fourposter, its daring use of bare wall and blank window contrasted with the meticulous rendering of wicker basket and window-shade drawstring, require skills and technique that few modern artists even claim to possess...
...scores came from hustle alone, for until the third period the Crimson attack found the B.U. defense a stone wall: plays in the Terrier zone, when started, were broken up almost immediately...