Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other circumstances the man in the wheelchair would have seemed a pathetic figure. He had been at Buchenwald concentration camp. His face was pale and craggy, his left arm a stump, his right leg missing. Sick and shattered, he looked older than his 43 years. But in Bayreuth Circuit Court last week spectators hissed as the man was carried past. "Beast!" they cried. "Monster...
...lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi overlords were shocked. After an SS investigation they packed him off to the front "to redeem himself," and there he lost a leg and an arm. After first declaring him unfit for trial, West German authorities changed their minds when Sommer married a blonde nurse in 1956, fathered her child and casually applied for an increase in his veterans' pension. Sommer was haled into court. The charge: 53 murders. A psychiatrist's finding: legally...
...William Naden, 57, moved up from executive vice president to president of Esso Standard Oil Co., chief domestic marketing and refining arm of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). He succeeds Stanley C. Hope, 64, president since 1949, who retires. Naden was born at Methuen, Mass., took a chemistry degree at what is now Lowell Technological Institute ('22), joined Esso in 1927, rose to plant superintendent. In World War II, he pushed expansion of refineries in the East, at first for Esso and then for the Government. Naden advanced to general manager of Esso's manufacturing in 1949, a vice...
...prudent sailor, a superb professional in the chancy matters of wind, tide, hemp, oak, canvas and gunpowder, at a time when a man-o'-war was a floating firecracker rather than a seagoing IBM machine. Nelson could tell changes in weather by twinges in his stump of arm (my "fin") as well as by the ship's barometer...
...soon earned his rank in an insane bit of primitive amphibious warfare in the West Indies. (Yellow Jack killed most of his comrades.) He lost the sight of his right eye as a result of a wound suffered during the siege of Calvi on Corsica, and his arm storming the fortified town of Tenerife with a force of sailors in longboats...