Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey came onstage last to charm the delegates out of their chairs with a whiplash, give-'em-hell attack on the Eisenhower Administration's "inertia and catering to specially privileged Republicans." His speech drew 40 rounds of applause, and as it ended, 3,000...
Alerted by the submarines' contact reports, Bull Halsey ordered his carriers to launch air strikes against Kurita'and opened the Battle of Sibuyan Sea on Oct. 24. In all, Halsey's planes made 259 sorties, sinking battleship Musashi, putting heavy cruiser Myoko out of action and damaging...
Mitscher launched his first strike at 0540, Oct. 25; during the day Task Force 38 planes made 527 sorties, sank three carriers and a destroyer and crippled a fourth carrier. U.S. surface ships and submarines sank the crippled carrier, a light cruiser and a destroyer. But Bull Halsey was not...
Driven to a nearby building on Vorovskovo Street, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Langelle produced his diplomatic card, claimed his diplomatic immunity from arrest. He demanded the right to call his embassy. The five Russian agents laughed, told him that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then one Russian searched Langelle...
Slumped in a maximum security cell in Mississippi's State Penitentiary, awaiting execution for the murder of a white woman in 1954, Robert Lee Goldsby, 32, a Negro, has one abiding concern: saving his skin. Last week the onetime lathe operator, whose death has been postponed five times in...