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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Career: Assigned to duty in Hawaii, he was tapped for staff duty before he had a chance either to com mand a squadron or gather the service and flight time necessary for 6-17 pilot rating. He was assistant chief of staff for Air Intelligence when the U.S. entered World War II, became one of the Air Corps's youngest brigadier generals at 36. Because he looked even younger than he was, he had to learn to endure gibes about his age: once while in Tunisia, in mufti, he was ordered by a chicken colonel to hustle...
...hope is that by 1985, 15 million blacks will have been settled in these areas, leaving only a manageable 6,000,000 living in the white man's cities and farm areas-enough to dig his gold, fire his furnaces and run his errands. Said the com mission : "Already the middle way leads inescapably toward integration. There is no midway between the two poles of ultimate integration and ultimate separate development of the two groups...
...French government has proposed a liberal program, the basic element of which is a search for new arrangements for the continued coexistence of the French and Moslem communities, new arrangements to be freely arrived at by discussion between the chosen leaders of the Moslem com munity and the French community in Algeria. The French government has solemnly promised free elections for the purpose of choosing these leaders. But we all know that elections cannot take place while disorder reigns. Hence we in the U.S. fervently hope that peace and order will come soon to the Algerian countryside . . . My countrymen have...
...Living Right theme was conceived at the first joint gathering of the National Council and the Canadian Council of Churches at Buffalo in 1952. Since then more than 25 similar laymen's conferences have been held in the U.S. to discuss com mon problems, much as the Evangelical Academies in Western Germany have done (TIME, March...
Impresario Hurok, 64, should know. He has been in the business of promoting, projecting and presenting ballet, opera, drama, symphonic orchestras and concert artists all over the world for more than 40 years. This season, for example, he presented in the U.S. the Comédie-Française, the Sadlers Wells Ballet, the Santa Cecilia Choir of Rome, Antonio and his Spanish Ballet Company, the Scots Guards Band, the Kabuki Dancers, the Vienna Choir Boys. Last week, hewing to his principle of giving the public the best, he presented his second TV show of the season.* It was easily...