Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Moscow. He exchanged quips with the farmers, drank buckets of vodka, and got a laugh out of most situations. Behind the facade of bonhomie he was ruthlessly liquidating all who stood in the way of Stalin's plans. Stubborn peasants were turned over to his friend, NKVD Colonel Ivan Serov. and shipped off in boxcars to Siberia; Jewish culture in the Ukraine was (to use a recent Communist phrase) "wiped...
...study room assigned to him at the National War College, an Air Force colonel stared glumly one day last August at the pile of books he had drawn out of the college library only a few hours after reporting for duty. The books were on history, sociology and economics-quite a shock for an officer who, a few days before, had been leading jet bombers across the Atlantic at 40,000 ft. as commander of a SAC B-47 squadron. "Has the Pentagon gone off its rocker?'' the colonel asked a classmate. "What the hell are we supposed...
...last week the colonel had other ideas about his assignment. Now in its tenth year, the National War College at Ford Lesley McNair in southwest Washington, D.C. has trained 997 promising officers and civilian officials. Though little known outside of Government circles, NWC is in its own way one of the most vital schools of higher learning...
...State Department's graduates include Ambassadors Max Bishop (Thailand), John M. Cabot (Sweden) and Robert McClintock (Cambodia). But more important than any individual success story is the fact that hundreds of officers and officials in the different services have learned something about working together. As one Army colonel put it last week: "Before I came here, I used to see State Department papers that conflicted with what I thought should be done on a particular problem. I'd get impatient. I'd say, 'What's the matter with those jerks?' Well...
...presidency. Ainslie Pryor, as Bryan, got a rococo fervor into his big "Cross of Gold" speech that captured the deadlocked convention and enabled the Great Commoner to enter-and lose-the presidential race against William McKinley. Circle Theater took another aghast look at Communist intrigue with The Case of Colonel Petrov,who defected two years ago from the Soviet embassy in Australia. As pictured on TV by Michael Gorrin, Petrov seemed far too dumb to have been head of Red espionage down under, and the show spent much of its time commiserating over the soul struggles of Sanford Meisner, playing...