Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book reviewer is quite correct. Of all the questions about the Normandy invasion I tried to answer in The Longest Day, the one I failed to include was: Did Mrs. Rommel like her June 6, 1944 birthday present of a custom-made pair of grey suede shoes from her field marshal husband [Nov. 23]? I had planned all along to include a footnote about the famous shoes-an omission that will be corrected in the next edition. Meanwhile, may I untantalize you with the answer...
...first long interview with Mrs. Rommel and her son Manfred, the Rommels were at a disadvantage. They did not know that I had the late field marshal's own headquarters war diaries, or that I had learned about his present to his wife. So when the interviewing began, it was obvious from their answers that I would not get the real story without my revealing facts I had read in the war diaries. They were nervous and reticent...
Draper sees no landing problems except at the high (6,000 ft.) field at Kabul, Afghanistan (which is being constructed for the Afghans by the Russians). Hemmed in by high mountain ranges, Kabul has no instrument-landing facilities, is often socked in suddenly by bad weather. As an extra safeguard, an Air Force C-47 at Kabul will make constant, firsthand weather reports to Draper while he is en route from Karachi. If bad weather does hit, Draper will know about it in plenty of time to skip Kabul and head for New Delhi. Hopefully the party will try Kabul...
With Nkrumah at his side, Philip moved gamely through a six-day round of sightseeing. At Accra's Nautical College, he had the appropriate words of praise for the new 150-man Ghanaian navy, which last week got its first craft-two British minesweepers. Resplendent in his white field marshal's uniform, Philip stopped off to present new Queen's colors to the trim Ghana regiment's 3rd Battalion; he also visited the headquarters of the air force, which now numbers 17 cadets. Politely, the duke inspected the ambitious new harbor project at Tema, 18 miles...
...team needs a home for about two years until a proposed stadium is built in Norwood by a group that Sullivan also heads. The modern, all-weather field will be fit for baseball as well as football and has been mentioned as a future home...