Word: rational
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone does, the mixture "foments"-or so says an ancient barmaid-and he sings Old King Cole in a manner that sounds almost bawdy. But then, of course, the clan is Australian...
...raids which ultimately ballooned into the Algerian revolt. Of the nine original moujahids (freedom fighters), three are now dead and five are in French prisons. The only one still at large is Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...
...House refused (207 to 161) to allow sailors to eat oleo with their meals as soldiers and airmen already do, except in some overseas areas or when butter surpluses are depleted. Dairy-bloc Congressmen lead a successful fight to keep intact a Navy Ration Act put through by Theodore Roosevelt to provide bluejackets with 1 6/10 ounces of "butter" a day, to prevent scurvy and beriberi...
...pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
...crack Third Colonial Parachute Regiment. A martinet but the idol of his men, Bigeard whipped them into shape by running them as much as 15 miles at a time. He made them shave every day, no matter where they were, doled out raw onions instead of the traditional wine ration because "wine reduces stamina." With all-night marches and sudden paratroop raids, he won every engagement, became so successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says one of his officers) that the army put him in charge of a special school which next month will begin...