Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twice-defeated Adlai Stevenson or to one of four U.S. Senators: Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington or Texas' Lyndon Johnson. But as candidates and their hardheaded professionals get down to counting delegates, they will find the Governors in command of most delegations fully aware of their separate and collective bargaining power and-in some cases -firm believers that a Governor belongs somewhere on the ticket...
...minutes after noon, Tail Gunner Donald E. Corder, 20, aviation electrician's mate, spotted two red-starred MIGs, already boring down in a gunnery run on the Mercator. Their guns began to spit bullets. "They're firing at us," he shouted into the intercom. Lieut. Commander Donald Mayer, 35, barked a fireback order. But cross-conversation blocked the intercom, and the command came too late. Communist armor-piercing bullets ripped up the Mercator's two 20-mm. tail guns, riddled Corder with 40 shrapnel wounds, set his flight suit ablaze...
...answers to the committee's polite questions, impressed members with a pin-striped academic pedigree. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (Phi Beta Kappa,'31), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House...
...high command of India's governing Congress Party, after first declaring the agitation against the Reds justified, last week accused its own supporters of responsibility for the violence in Kerala. Namboodiripad had been begging for "that good man," Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to visit Kerala to see that nonviolence kept from getting more violent. Nehru accepted last week, and the result was bound to help Namboodiripad...
...found by the warden as a cub, and Patricia named him King and reared him, feeding him from a bottle and sleeping with him in her crib. When he finally became too big, he was banished to the wilds. But King still plays dead on Patricia's command. He loves the warden, too, and will wrestle with him on invitation...