Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That night Jackie abandoned her all-American wardrobe and appeared at Versailles in yet another awesome hairdo and a bell-skirted gown?the supreme creation of French Designer Hubert de Givenchy. The Parisian press was ecstatic. APOTHEOSIS AT VERSAILLES! said France-Soir, correctly. "Charmante! Ravissante!" chorused re porters...
...leave the choice of returning to his homeland up to each P.W. Among the Chinese and North Koreans held in the U.N. prison camps, 22,000 decided not to go home. Among American P.W.s, only 21 opted to live in Red China. Among them were Otho G. Bell, William A. Cowart and Lewie W. Griggs-and they had compelling reasons to stay with Communism. As a prisoner, Bell had publicly proclaimed that U.S. officers had ordered him to kill women and children, that President Harry S. Truman was a warmonger, and that he would gladly run a tank over...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court found that Turncoats Bell, Cowart and Griggs, who had gamboled about Communist China for 18 months before changing their minds and returning to the U.S., were entitled to their U.S. Army pay from their capture until their dishonorable discharges. In January 1954, while all 21 turncoats were still in Redland, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson ordered the Army to give them dishonorable discharges. Normally, such a discharge is given only by court-martial, not by administrative decree. The total amount of back pay due Bell, Cowart and Griggs as a result of last week...
...Bell, Cowart and Griggs had little cause for celebration. All have lived miserably since their return. Bell now dwells in a small house trailer with his wife and four children near Olympia, Wash., earns $1.70 an hour in a Christmas tree nursery. Cowart was last reported working as a dishwasher in Alabama after being fired from jobs in a Cleveland restaurant and as a magazine salesman and truck driver in Texas and Oklahoma when employers learned of his past. Griggs, after getting a sociology degree from Texas' Stephen F. Austin State College and trying to peddle a book...
...Micael D. West 2G: the Helen Choate Bell prise for an essay entitled "Sherwood Anderson's Triumph...