Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delta Air Lines is deeply concerned about your story "The Hero Galley" [Feb. 15]. It depicts Lieut. William Galley as someone who, in recent weeks, has become the recipient of numerous favors and gratuities. It relates that Delta's Columbus, Ga., station personnel have "wired ahead for VIP treatment...
...first and most spectacular event occurred in New York on Columbus Day, 1969. Hundreds of Radical Libertarian Alliance members assembled under a black flag to debate the relative merits of communism and individualism-a large number of the RLA members were, by then, communalists-and whether or not to adopt revolutionary tactics. The fric...
Died. Roger M. Kyes, 64, General Motors executive who served the Pentagon as Deputy Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower in 1953; of a heart attack; in Columbus, Ohio. When G.M. President Charles E. Wilson became Secretary of Defense, he took along his vice president, Kyes, as No. 2 man. Tough-minded, outspoken, sardonically known as "Jolly Roger" because of his piratical ruthlessness, Kyes characterized the nation's military establishment as an organization plagued by "unrealistic requirements, poor planning and inefficient execution . . . waste of money, poor utilization of manpower, unnecessary drain of materials from the civilian economy, and the inefficient...
Besides his political activities, DiCara keeps busy with civic organizations. He is Cubmaster of Troop 66, a committee type at the Knights of Columbus, an assistant in the CYO program at St. Gregory's, and a member of the Hyde Park Most Precious Blood Catholic Young Adult Club...
...live ammunition, and told to take care of the situation. No one can contend that they shot cold-bloodedly, taking out their anger like the hardhats. Undoubtedly they fired in blind, tired, nervous panic. But the shells had been loaded and the powder primed very carefully in Washington and Columbus...