Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North German Lloyd line; Engineer Schriever sent for his wife and sons Bernard and Gerhard, and they soon moved to the German-American community of New Braunfels, Texas. A few days before Ben's eighth birthday, his father was killed in an industrial accident in San Antonio. The boy shouldered his new responsibilities as male head of the family with what would become a lifelong seriousness and intensity...
...citizen, went on to Texas A. & M., got his B.S. in engineering, an R.O.T.C. commission, and a yen to be an architect. But Depression-time was rough for fledgling architects, and besides, Ben had got a lot of fun walking miles out to the dirt fields near San Antonio to watch the U.S.'s flying cadets putting their de Havillands through their paces. So he applied for and was accepted in the Air Corps flying school, survived the school's average of one crash landing for every 30 hours of flight training, and its 60% washout rate...
...Regis Hotel, poured 200 rounds toward the room, and thereby killed Tourist Pete Korenda, of Clifton, N.J. Three hours later the firing stopped. At Radio Reloj, cops cut off and killed the fleeing students who had attacked the station. One of them was Student Leader José Antonio Echevarria, 25, who last month told a visiting U.S. newsman that "Cuban students are not afraid...
...from going the way of the heath hen and the passenger pigeon. Shelved: a proposal to capture several pairs of cranes and try to breed them in captivity. Left pending: a more modest proposal to capture a lone crane and try to mate it with the one in San Antonio. A difficulty in this scheme: since adult whooping cranes look alike to human eyes, the chances would run only 50-50 that the new pair would really make a pair. Maybe even whooping cranes find it hard to tell the difference. If so, that might be one reason...
Quivering Left. Three months ago wispy, white-maned Premier Antonio Segni won parliamentary approval for his plan to put all state-owned corporations under a single "Ministry of State Holdings." The right was worried: in the hands of a zealous left-winger, the new ministry could spearhead an all-out assault on Italian free enterprise...