Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers are out on a strike called by the local Arab Trades Union Congress. Aden's port workers may still throb to Nasser's broadcasts, but it is the now quiescent Imam whom the British worry about. He is the chief threat to the garrison post from which they watch over their Persian Gulf oil interests. Reassured, the British are now preparing to create a second federation in Aden's even emptier Eastern Protectorate, where the British-run Iraq Petroleum Co. hopes to find...
...with Producer Bob Banner and Chief Writer Vincent Bogart, but the end result is still the man himself. He is always the skimpy (5 ft. 6½ in.), easy-going guy who has been working at the trade of entertaining ever since high school, when his name was Thomas Garrison Morfit and he was writing a musical comedy back in Baltimore, almost 30 years ago. Even then Garry was such an accomplished gagman that a fan named F. Scott Fitzgerald came backstage and solicited his collaboration on a revue. "I was flunking high school anyway," says Moore...
There Was a Little Girl, a Joshua Logan production, stars Jane Fonda, 22-year-old daughter of Henry. In the original script, she shared a motel bed with a rapist (Sean Garrison), and four-letter words crossed the footlights like crossbow bolts. That was too much for the mothers and fathers of Boston, whose reaction was so vivid that the language was cleaned up and the motel scene changed...
...miles southeast of Haifa, Megiddo (the Armageddon of the Book of Revelation) dominates the best route from Egypt to Mesopotamia and has been important strategically for more than 4,000 years. Today it is mostly a ruined city wall. Stables for 450 horses show that it had an important garrison of chariots, which were then the decisive military weapon. The Old Testament says that Solomon built Megiddo, and archaeologists who excavated the city before World War II decided that the Bible was essentially right...
...attention, "that if he can accomplish it, I will give him my blessing in my own name and in the name of all the ladies of England." Tunneling actually began in 1880. But Parliament was swamped with protests. An opposition pamphlet painted the lurid picture: "Dover taken, the garrison butchered, the tunnel vomiting men of all arms, London invaded, England conquered." Britain's most respected Old Soldier, Baron Wolseley, rumbled: "Surely John Bull will not endanger his birthright, his liberty, his property simply in order that men and women may cross between England and France without running the risk...