Word: colonel
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...head of a now bitterly divided family. "We cannot even think of it," he told Massie, even though some symbols of the czarist past, like the country's pre-Soviet flag, have been restored. Should the impossible happen, one plausible candidate for the throne is a retired U.S. Marine colonel named Paul R. Ilyinsky, the son of the late Grand Duke Dimitri, a cousin of the Czar's. Ilyinsky, however, prefers the job he already holds: mayor of Palm Beach, Florida...
Many people have seen all they want of OLIVER NORTH on TV. But for the others, good news: the retired Marine Corps Lieut. Colonel will play a retired intelligence operative who provides investigators with top-secret info on an episode of NBC's new drama series JAG. "I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys," says North, who has acted on TV but once before (if you discount the Iran-contra hearings, considered by some his best work). North has no plans to pursue a serious acting career, although he'd like to work again with JAG director...
...other cadet remained overnight in the infirmary, where Faulkner, still unable to hold down even a few crackers, was fed intravenously. She remained in the infirmary until Friday. By then Citadel spokesman Colonel Terry Leedom was announcing that for Faulkner, trying to make up for missing Hell Week would be like "entering the Indianapolis 500 on the 25th...
Once there, however, the 99th was relegated to the routine duty of strafing ground targets. Eventually, they began escorting bombers to their targets, but the commander of the fighter group, Colonel William Momyer, went out of his way to make them feel unwelcome. Time, in its Sept. 20, 1943, issue, questioned the fighting capability of blacks in general, asking, "Is the Negro as good a soldier as the white...
DIED. OVETA CULP HOBBY, 90, public servant and newspaper executive; in Houston. No job was too big for the "Little Colonel," who in 1941 rose from co-managing the Houston Post to commanding the Women's Army Corps. She was appointed the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953; her resignation two years later prompted Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to gasp, "What? The best man in the Cabinet...