Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, May 7) in the battle for a bigger Air Force. What Lodge wants is a combat-ready Air Force of 150 groups...
...goad us), 52, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Eighth Army, once rated one of the Army's top horsemen. After graduating from West Point (1920), he switched from the cavalry to the infantry. A tough, rangy, veteran line commander, he headed the 28th Division's 112th Infantry Combat team in World War II, was wounded in France, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Married, has two daughters, and a son at West Point...
...General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., accepted a Bronze Star medal in recognition of her husband's "heroic action" at Les Andalouses, Algeria, in 1942, when a patrol under his command fought off a superior enemy force. This award made the eldest son of T.R. the winner of every Army combat medal given by the U.S. Government, including a World War I Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with clusters, the Purple Heart, and a World War II posthumous Medal of Honor for action at Normandy, where he died of a heart attack...
...affecting the whole state, notably the problem of the vanishing country doctor; 70 Kansas rural communities had no physician at all. He took the lead in urging his own graduates to go to the country, in persuading rural communities to build new clinics to attract the young M.D.s. To combat the country doctor's fear of "medical isolation," he sent his faculty members around to lecture on the latest scientific developments, and organized refresher courses for general practitioners. The education of a doctor, he said, is a 4O-year program...
Killed in Action. Colonel Karl Lewis Polifka, 40, pioneer in military aerial reconnaissance, veteran of 347 combat missions in World War II; when his plane, hit by enemy small arms fire, crashed in Korea...