Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer Felix Jackson, faced with the difficult job of making the Orwellian future believable ("without putting on a space-cadet kind of show"), hired British Playwright William P. Templeton to do the adaptation. Jackson also decided, with Director Paul Nickell, that the shape of the superstate could be suggested, rather than spelled out, by lighting tricks and simple, abstract sets...
Commissions will be available for all flight cadet, either pilots or observers, and for some engineering majors. As for the others, "the latest information indicates that a small percent of the men in the administrative category will be given commission," Bostrom announced...
Married. Mildred ("Mimi") Clark, 20, Wellesley-educated daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark; and Ensign Thomas Richard Gronlund, 23, Navy air cadet; in a formal wedding attended by 565 guests, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Associate Justice Hugo Black. General of the Army Omar Bradley; in Washington...
...Majesty's Army had a volunteer: the Duke of Kent, 17-year-old first cousin of Queen Elizabeth and seventh in succession to the throne. In October he will become the first member of the royal family ever to enter the ranks as a private. After pre-cadet training, he will take the examinations for Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, hoping to make the army his career (preferably as a tank officer...
...Stockly took to the air. He was accepted as a flying cadet in 1929, went to Brooks Field, Texas, where he managed to get through primary, cross-country, formation and night-flight training before he was washed out as being "unmilitary in character, too individualistic to fit into the Army." Shortly thereafter, Stockly's father, who was ill, took the family to Tucson. With no depression jobs available, Stockly entered the University of Arizona for postgraduate work in French and other romance languages, learned to read French almost as fluently as English...