Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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September Storm (20th Century-Fox) will soon blow over, but while it lasts the public is invited to contemplate-along with Mark Stevens, Joanne Dru, a wicked-looking foam-rubber shark and a fishily familiar search for sunken treasure -a cinematic curiosity: the first 3-D picture Hollywood has released in five years...
...long lifetime he produced nearly 20,000 watercolors and drawings-mountaintops, battle scenes, romantic castles, lakes and seas. He was fascinated by weather; few experiences pleased him more than to be out in a small boat in a storm. "That's fine! That's fine!" he would cry every time a big wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such...
...time for all who fear seasickness to take to the lifeboats. The rest of you must cling to the mast." In these ringing quarter-deck tones, President Charles de Gaulle last week warned his ministers that he had set a course into the eye of the storm. His decision: to speed a solution toward an "Algerian republic." The U.S. had just elected a President who in 1957 stirred up a flurry in France by declaring that "the independence of Algeria" was "the essential first step" in North Africa. The Algerian rebels are pressing Morocco hard to grant passage...
...Wreckers. Storm clouds could be seen gathering. In protest at De Gaulle's new course, André Jacomet, No. 2 man in the Algerian civil government, handed in his resignation. De Gaulle's response was decisive. Ignoring Jacomet's resignation, De Gaulle ordered him dismissed from his post and suspended his membership in the elite Council of State. After that, other officials in Algeria who had been muttering about resigning fell abruptly silent...
Ambo was ordained a priest, together with his brother, in 1958. His first assignment was Boiani, fourth largest Anglican mission district in the diocese. To tend its 7,000 natives, scattered through the rugged southern reaches of the Owen Stanley mountain range, Ambo often swam storm-swollen rivers in his shorts, was lucky to cover 20 miles in two days of tramping...