Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Most camp commandants, when asked about specific charges of torture or ill treatment, professed deep indignation, cited President de Gaulle's strict commands against it, and promised to carry out immediate investigations. But in one camp near Algiers the gendarmerie colonel in command refused even to pretend that he opposed torture, frankly told the inspectors: "The struggle against terrorism makes certain interrogation methods indispensable. These alone allow us to save lives and avoid new attacks...
...Paris. There, while working for his publisher, Gaston Gallimard, he secretly edited the Resistance newspaper Combat. On the day of liberation, Combat appeared with a Page One editorial. "Out of this dread childbirth," Camus had written, "a revolution is being born. The Paris that fights tonight intends to command tomorrow, not for power but for justice, not for politics but morality." For millions, that was the promise of the peace...
...National Guard Armory, under the bannered slogan: TEENS TELLING TEENS IN THE WORLD'S DECADE OF DESTINY. Layman Ted W. Engstrom of the Evangelical Free Church, president of Youth for Christ International, urged his plaid-shirted and bobby-soxed audience to write down the motto: "Christ Constantly in Command, Christ Completely in Control," and to put it into practice at school, at home, "and in parked cars on dates." Evangelist Billy Graham, a onetime Youth for Christ member, exhorted them to "turn your life over to Christ"-minds, eyes, ears ("Do you listen to dirty jokes?") and sex life...
...Young,* still ambitious and aggressive at 60-plus, quit to express her opposition to cold, stolid Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67. It was a bitter end to a 25-year association. Kirby's inherited Woolworth millions had bankrolled Bob Young from the 19305 onward, had put him in command of Alleghany, which controls the New York Central Railroad, the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services group, and 50% of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Class B stock. Last week Wall Streeters were betting that Anita Young would place her considerable savvy and stockholding behind one or more...
...bungle May 10-11, 1941 completely, and Collier has pages of stirring authenticity. His sense of small drama is sure: pretty Marguerita Stahli, buried alive for 15 long minutes, fearful only that her fiance might have died during the blast (he did); the curiosity of the men in Fighter Command Operations Room as they plot the erratic flight up the North Sea coast of a lone Messerschmitt bearing Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess on his mad "peace mission" to King George VI. Such touches have the gritty reality...