Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been bothered lately by the tooth's roughness. Before the President went on vacation, White House Dentist Lieut. Colonel James Fairchild checked and found the molar split. It was not painful, but there was danger of infection. Fairchild's decision: extraction. As a precaution against excessive bleeding, Ike was taken off the anticoagulant he gets six times a week as a part of his heart therapy. Armed with X rays, Colonel Robert B. Shira, head of Walter Reed's oral-surgery section, yanked the tooth, sent him on his way in 15 minutes...
...Colonel Devere P. Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics, referring to his group's performance at the camp, said, "We are trying to take preliminary action that will permit Harvard men to do better up there...
Breaching the Morice line is the specialty of a 1,600-man F.L.N. commando led by a onetime laborer called "Colonel" Laskri Amara, who prowls the strip between the fence and the Tunisian border. Amara's men operate with insulated wire cutters, drive cattle in to set off the land mines sown along the line and frequently draw French troops away from a genuine breakthrough by first feinting an attack on the fence in a totally different location. By these means-and the simple expedient of sending many convoys south of Tebessa where the Morice line ends-the F.L.N...
Significantly, no North Korean planes intercepted Hobbs's hijacked DC-3 either. The plane obviously was expected, and after it landed at Sunan airport, 20 miles north of Pyongyang, North Korean officials made only token efforts to imply defection. With Hobbs were his copilot, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Howard McClellan (logging flying hours with Air Force permission), a West German businessman and his wife, and 30 Koreans, including the chief information officer of the Korean air force, an energetic, Communist-investigating member of the Korean National Assembly, and, police at Pusan theorized, some half-dozen North Korean agents...
Died. Dwight Herbert Green, 61, onetime (1941-48) Republican governor of Illinois, early famed as federal prosecutor of Al Capone, later as yes-man to the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of lung cancer; in Chicago. Green nominated Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency in 1944, keynoted the 1948 Republican Convention. Trying for an unprecedented third consecutive term, he was defeated by Adlai Stevenson, soon reappeared in the news as the governor who put 51 Illinois newsmen on the state payroll, spent his final years practicing law in Chicago...