Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...plotted his own way to the throne. Back in 1916, he was only an ambitious young ras (marshal) named Tafari in the eastern province of Harar when he teamed up with a female cousin in a plot that toppled the playboy Emperor Lij Yasu. Ras Tafari pursued the fugitive Lij Yasu for five years, caught him, threw him in prison and kept him bound in golden chains for 14 years until he died in 1935. Though his cousin became the Empress Zauditu, Ras Tafari gradually emerged as the country's strongman. Upon the Empress' death...
...expectations were never fulfilled. Then on Oct. 25 came a curiously noncommittal announcement that Khrushchev's hand-picked chief of Soviet Missile Forces. Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, had died in an "airplane accident." Last week two reports from Europe offered different versions of what had really happened. ^ The first report, sent from Switzerland by the Chicago Daily News's veteran correspondent Paul Ghali and attributed to "foreign diplomats in Bern," said the Russians had actually rocketed a manned capsule into space sometime in early October. "But the Russian scientists on the ground were unable to separate the container...
...taut as it should be because its tale of dark doings in Greece and Sicily is interleaved with too much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under...
...Browder stressed that not only does Yugoslavia defend the policy of peaceful co-existence and repudiate war as an instrument of socialism, but Marshal Tito's party also accepts the responsibility for bringing about peace. Yugoslavia, the harbinger of a new trend in the communist world, is therefore an indispensable ally of the West in its struggle to ease cold-war tensions...
Newell Flather '61, of Eliot House and Lowell, and Thomas N. Blodgett '61 of Winthrop House and Great Bennington, were chosen Second and Third Class Marshals. The Fourth Marshal, is Bruce B. Maclntyre '61, of Dunster House and Washington...