Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement expresses the mercantile theory of morals, and Mann's man (Henry Bookholt), faithfully represented on the screen, is intended to embody it. Born in the Rhineland, Felix Krull begins life as the son of a somewhat shady operator who manufactures phony champagne. Deftly dodging the draft with a feigned fit of epilepsy, Felix lights out for Paris to live by his wits. He rehearses them at the border. When a wealthy woman, Mme. Houpflé (Susi Nicoletti), stands next to Felix during customs inspection, her jewel case somehow gets mixed up with his belongings, and he finds himself...
...province of the Air Force. Even so, there is still enough overlapping both today and in the future to make overkill a very real problem. Before he can decide how much is enough, McElroy needs an overall, unified strategic war plan, has ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to draft one, is considering the appointment of a strategic warfare chief who will delegate roles and missions so as to prevent duplication of effort...
...security. To discard or drastically slash the program, the President warned, would bring about a "basic impairment of free world power" and a "crumbling'' of the U.S.'s "strategic overseas positions." The results would be heavier defense spending, higher taxes, bigger draft calls and "ultimately, a beleaguered America, her freedoms limited by mounting defense costs, and almost alone in a world dominated by international Communism...
...turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft. At 7:45 a.m. 22 negotiators crowded round a table in the main hall of King Hussein's palace and signed a twelve-point federation agreement bound in the red, green, black and white colors of Jordan and Iraq. "This is one of the happiest moments of my life...
From Lincoln Isham, a Vermont-based great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln, the Library of Congress got an old family Bible and three Lincoln manuscripts. Among them: a draft of a letter from Lincoln to an Illinois friend concerning the merits of re-electing a Congressman, Richard Yates, later governor of Illinois. The malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote...