Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considerable Change. Four days later, the nonsense having gone far enough, higher authority intervened. The conviction was reversed because of "cumulative errors and procedural irregularities in the trial." Said Colonel Charles W. Johnstone, Wheeler's commanding officer: "Wheeler told me he is going to be a fine airman and I believe him. I am convinced he has undergone a considerable change of attitude." Said Don Wheeler, as he shoved off for Tokyo to celebrate the scalping he gave the Air Force: "You spend a few days in the stockade, and your attitude would change too. But I feel that...
...ease the blow, the War Office set up a special fund totaling nearly $140 million for severance payments, terminal grants and pensions. Examples: a colonel retired at 45 after 24 years' service can receive as much as $16,800 in severance pay, a terminal grant of $7,728, and a pension of $2,576 yearly. A sergeant retired after 17 years will receive $3,500 severance pay, a terminal grant of $630, a pension of $384 yearly...
Civvy Street. In Britain's present full employment, enlisted men and noncoms should have little trouble finding jobs. Civvy street should also not be too hard for junior officers with technical training in engineering, electronics, navigation, etc. So far, colonels, brigadiers and rear admirals-men in their 40s or beyond-are finding themselves most difficult to place. In factories and firms they find themselves regarded, and resented, as Colonel Blimps. Private companies, however, are delighted to pick up ex-field marshals at fancy prices for their boards of directors. Too many honors without enough rank can also...
...guard fired another round into the President's body, then fled toward the palace gate, fired one round at a screaming maid, another at a colonel of the guards (neither was hit). As his former comrades in arms rushed up from all sides, Vásquez Sánchez put the rifle muzzle to his throat and fired the last bullet of his five-round clip upward through his own skull...
...Picnic at Sakkara (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955) was a rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...