Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine print of the epochal NATO Treaty signed by twelve nations in Washington in 1949, was the provision that any NATO member could come back in ten years to suggest changes in the treaty structure. Last week, as the NATO Council got together in conference rooms and on the flag-banked platform of Washington's Departmental Auditorium, nobody suggested that a single comma of the original treaty ought to be changed...
...lieutenant and six enlisted men-off the Pacific Express passenger list to make way for the colonel, his family and luggage. When some of the victims tried to plead their emergency problems-a dead son, a dying sister, a mother's funeral, etc.-the colonel turned his back, gathered up his family, marched to the loading ramp...
...rang up Tachikawa tower. To the Pacific Express, already a hundred miles out, sparked a cryptic radio message: return to base. At first the pilot protested, but Tachikawa transmitted an unmilitary postscript: "You'd better do it, sir, or the general says he will have your plane brought back under air escort...
Large Legend. Turning back unescorted, the C-118 jettisoned 1,800 gallons of fuel so that it could touch down safely at Tachikawa. There it found a one-man, three-star welcoming committee on hand. General Burns had driven eight miles from his home in Fuchu to put the Platts off, put the bumped airmen back on, and order an investigation. Last week, the investigation over, a six-officer board blamed "administrative error," found Platt innocent of bumping the G.I.s, pointed to the fact that the Pacific Express had indeed gone off with eight empty seats-just as the colonel...
...with the long-entrenched reformers; some complained that Cookingham himself wielded too much power, grumbled about new taxes following the annexation of outlying communities. Threats of new taxes simmered. So did resentment against the powerful Kansas City Star, whose editorials carried dramatic warnings that a coalition victory would bring back the gaudy old days of wholesale corruption...