Word: com
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Bonnet's coaching, Périllat took the Werigen, Kitzbühel and Megeve com petitions, three of Europe's biggest, with apparent ease, each time winning both the downhill race and the combined-events championship. His wins have made him a French national hero - a fact that Guy Périllat accepts calmly. Says he: "There's a time in life for everything. If my time for success is now. it's now. Everything else will take its place...
...Saratoga, won a Distinguished Flying Cross for leading the first U.S. carrier strike of the war. A couple of weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some Japanese ships in Torpedo Junction off the eastern Solomons. To ward the end of the war, he had com mand of the escort carrier Chenango when the ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Okinawa...
...Politicians are perplexed, responsible people are confused, workers are restless and officials fearful - all waiting for the man ordained by Providence," said the Jornal do Brasil. Besides, cacao shippers wanted to change export policies, hotelmen com plained (naming no names) that Brazilians spend more in foreign hotels than in their own, São Paulo politicians wanted Quadros to name a candidate for mayor...
ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com- peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help to Apollo, who tamed a wild team that Admetus drove to victory to win Alcestis. See Music, Mommy...
...then Allied occupation policy not only to enforce total disarmament of a nation that had thrice in 70 years invaded its neighbors, but to re-educate Germans to hate militarism. The Com munist invasion of Korea changed all that. The danger that limited war could start in Europe, too, led U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in September 1950, to propose the rearmament of West Germans under NATO command. (The Communists had already organized their East Germans in paramilitary "police" units...