Word: 33rd
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...music critic who had snickered at Daughter Margaret's singing that the fellow would be needing a jockstrap if they ever met. Now it turns out that advancing age and tranquil retirement in Independence, Mo., did nothing to sweeten the tongue or soften the wrath of the 33rd President of the United States. In a book appropriately titled Plain Speaking, to be published in February (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Truman displays all of his oldtime fire...
Costin, a junior, placed eleventh in both the 200-yd. and 400-yd. freestyle after being seeded 33rd and 23rd in the events respectively. All-American status is awarded to finishers in the top sixteen places...
Steele's third place, coupled with Tom Cavin's 32nd and Scott Johnson's 33rd, earned the Crimson eighth place in the team standings for the slalom...
...those accomplishments were long past, the Trumanesque spunk and will that produced them were evident right up to the end. After a tenacious 22-day struggle in Kansas City's Research Hospital and Medical Center (see MEDICINE), the nation's 33rd President died, at 88, from what doctors officially termed "organic failures causing a collapse of the cardiovascular system." Truman had detested Richard Nixon for years after the 1952 campaign, when Nixon implied that Truman might be treasonously soft on Communism, but the feud was since mended. Now Nixon proclaimed a 30-day period of national mourning...
Died. Harry S. Truman, 88, 33rd President of the United States (see THE NATION...