Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Russians, and two years at Panmunjom, American diplomats should have learned to confer with Communists without appeasing them the least bit. And such a conference is an honorable way, in diplomatic language, for Russia to take the strain off Germany, Austria, and important parts of the cold war battlefield. The U.S. might listen to an old hand like Sir Winston. He has been dealing successfully with Communists for a long time...
Thin, elegant Henri Navarre, 55, was born at Villefranche-de-Rouergue in southwestern France and educated at SaintCyr, won a cavalry commission on the battlefield in World War I. A specialist in intelligence work, he was chief...
Poly's first use-as insulation-is still important. In the past 2½ years the Army has saved $153 million by substituting poly for rubber as insulation for battlefield communication wire and cable. But Bakelite's President Bunn and other poly pushers think their market has barely been touched. Surgeons have successfully substituted poly tubing for bile ducts and poly film for brain membranes. Because of its flexibility and moisture-proof qualities, even at below-freezing temperatures, poly's biggest potential market may be in packaging fresh and frozen vegetables and other foods...
Like Billy Budd, the general might have come to life on a battlefield removed from his world of the pentagon. In this setting, he too often cramps the other, more real characters, who seem straining to become human. A state department official, another general, a newspaper reporter--these characters are nearer our reality, although all of them are just a bit too good. even their mistakes occurred because they were always doing what they thought was right...
Mobridge agreed. Five other towns, anxious for a new tourist attraction, clamored for Sitting Bull's bones too. Montana's Senator James E. Murray argued that the chief should be reburied at Montana's Custer Battlefield Cemetery, near the remains of General Custer.* And North Dakota, aroused to civic pride after 63 years, suddenly decided it prized Sitting Bull after all. The old chief's granddaughters-Mrs. Nancy Kicking Bear, Mrs. Angelique LaPointe and Mrs. Sarah Little Spotted Horse-had all agreed to Grey Eagle's project, but North Dakota's Governor Norman Brunsdale...