Word: combate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat new ravages by "the influence," a worldwide war is being waged this week in response to a call to arms from the Far East. Supreme headquarters is the World Health Organization in Geneva, which collects intelligence gleanings from around the globe, sends out captured specimens of the enemy virus to 46 nations. In more than a dozen laboratories- including those of the U.S. Public Health Service and major American drug firms-virologists are at work, with techniques as fine and occult as those of cryptographers. Their purpose: to establish the virus' precise identity, pinpoint its strengths and weaknesses...
Death. Sergeant Julitz and three others managed to make it to the opposite shore. But 19 more were carried, struggling and gasping in their heavy combat gear, downstream towards the Iller Bridge. Four were rescued. Fifteen went to their deaths. It was the first major training accident in the history of West Germany's nascent (96,000-strong) Bundeswehr...
...sturdy, blue-eyed Major Joseph E. Barrett, 33, a tough but affable World War II veteran from Rule, Texas. Flying B-175, Pilot Barrett was shot down over Schweinfurt, Germany, spent 19 months in a German prison camp. In 1947 he transferred to helicopters, logged 250 combat hours in Korea, won a Silver Star for flying a shell-chopped chopper 70 miles behind enemy lines to retrieve a wounded fighter pilot...
...Operations. "Terrible" Tunner, impatient, coldly efficient, has made his biggest mark as a top transport troubleshooter. West Pointer Tunner headed up the wartime Air Transport Command's ferrying division, later brilliantly steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first all-round command, broadened his background to make him a top-echelon candidate...
Southern editors raced to combat with rebel yells and a battery of 105-mm. inkpots. Companies of cartoonists fired from sniper positions at the top of editorial pages, while the columnists, of course, made up the fifth column. SOUTHERN BLOOD BOILS! screamed the Jackson, Miss. News. SACRILEGE! shouted Tennessee's Kingsport Times. "President Eisenhower," sputtered the Shelby, N.C. Star, "must have lost his mind...