Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 30% of the trainees are al ready commissioned officers, most of them in their 20s, whose silver wings can carry their careers high in the air cavalry, the Army's youngest, fastest-growing branch. The other 70% are nearly all young volunteers fresh from high school and college, who become warrant officers* if they complete the flight course successfully. As new recruits, they take regular Army basic training for eight weeks and then go to Texas' Fort Wolters for four weeks of preflight instruction...
...embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons in a shaky backhand scrawl, "Do you remember...
Last week, still battling sleeplessness, Clara Bow suddenly stiffened and collapsed with a heart attack as she watched television at her home in West Los Angeles. By the time her nurse could summon help, the '20s fever was over...
...visit to the U.S., Wagons-Lits introduced sleeping and dining cars to Europe, devised Europe's first truly through-train railroad system. World War I flattened the company, and it was just recovering when the Bolsheviks grabbed 600 of its cars in Russia. It prospered in the '20s and '30s, then in World War II lost 25% of its rolling stock. Later, Nasser confiscated the company's branch in Egypt. Says Andre Widhoff, 62, Wagons-Lits director-general: "Every morning when I wake up, I look at the newspaper and wonder: What has happened...
Died. Clara Bow, 60, Hollywood's It girl of the '20s; of an apparent heart attack; in West Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...