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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet Sardinian flew back home at week's end as unostentatiously as he arrived. Among his souvenirs: political profit accruing to the first NATO-country Premier to be briefed by President Eisenhower on the Khrushchev talks. He had also the knowledge that the U.S. accounts him a good friend...
...Nelson Rockefeller. But last week, in a dramatic turnabout which has also been reflected nationally since Nixon's trip to Russia, the Field poll showed that for Richard Nixon, California is once again home, sweet home. Rockefeller also gained in popularity, reflecting a general resurgence of Republican strength among the voters of California. The comparative Nixon-Rockefeller results, against Stevenson...
...class of 1929 was one of the most distinguished ever to graduate from the old Army Air Corps flying school at Kelly Field, Texas. Stirred by Charles Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris in 1927, many promising young men flocked to Kelly to win their wings. Among the class of 1929 graduates: Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay; General Samuel E. Anderson, chief of the Air Materiel Command; retired Brigadier General La Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General...
Incredibly, among Red China's teeming millions-a manpower shortage developed. Stevedores were shifted from the ports to the paddies, and unloaded ships piled up in the harbors. Railroad workers were rushed to the docks, and train schedules became chaotic. Office workers went to the farms, and commerce staggered. Instead of performing military duties, soldiers were put to work digging ditches and raising pigs. Even the wives and children of army officers and enlisted men hoed cabbages and spread fertilizer...
...because they had protested the use of troops in labor battalions. Into the chief of staff's post went General Lo Jui-ching (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), bloody-minded former boss of the secret police, who could be depended upon to ferret out any more "incorrect thinking" among the military...