Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pencils to Literates. By 1946, after his discharge as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's chemical-warfare branch, Jack Javits had made enough of a name as a promising young Republican lawyer to be offered the party's nomination for Congress from Manhattan's 21st District. It was not much of an offer: Tammany Hall had been carrying the 21st by two-to-one margins for 25 years. That made no difference to Jack Javits; he eagerly accepted the offer and flung himself into the campaign, having also picked up the endorsement of the Liberal Party...
...Soviet offer. But how the West could have withdrawn its offer only two days after Nasser had publicly accepted it, and at the same time have expected no startling results, is difficult to understand. Washington obviously thought a public insult by the deeply distrusted West would result in the Colonel's returning humbly to ask for money. But the prize had been dangled in front of Nasser for so long that Mr. Dulles was asking for the worst by pulling it away after the bargaining game had become open to the public...
...State Dulles clearly recognized in their public statements last week. But this time U.S. planners will not be caught napping. Since last May experts of the State, Commerce, Interior and Defense Departments and the Office of Defense Mobilization have been charting their course. In August, within a fortnight after Colonel Nasser's Suez seizure, the ODM had in hand a general "Plan of Action," now being worked out in detail by a crack Middle East Emergency Committee (made up of representatives from 14 top U.S. oil companies...
...West Germany last week were Egyptians. It was their job, in a desperate response to calls for help from Cairo, to comb the Kiel Canal and other German waterways in search of pilots skillful and experienced enough to guide a ship through the Suez. For the one thing Colonel Nasser cannot do without, if he is to run the canal successfully, is pilots. Any day now all but a handful of the pilots needed to keep boats moving may leave their jobs. If they do, and traffic piles up, a new and crucial phase of the Suez crisis...
...pleasure-loving General Howe stopped for "cakes and Madeira" at Mrs. Murray's on Murray Hill. Washington's men got safely away to Harlem Heights with the loss of only about 50 casualties and 300 prisoners, and the next morning fresh Ranger scouts, led by Lieut. Colonel Thomas Knowlton of Bunker Hill fame, started up the action again around the Jones farmhouse (near Riverside Drive and 106th Street...