Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commanded Eighth Army (1955) and U.N. forces (1955-57) in the delicate cease-fire period when the U.S. nursed its local allies (South Korea, Japan, Nationalist China) into shape to carry more of their own defense load. Specifics: he put down South Korean riots against U.S. troops (provocation: the U.S. agreed to Communist truce supervisors), spearheaded the Defense Department's successful efforts to solve the land crisis which threatened permanent political unrest on Okinawa, the U.S.'s main Far East defense position...
...place for sad sacks or boneheads. Only two of Battery A's 129 men had less than eighth-grade education; 91 had finished high school and nine college; and most had volunteered for missilery to get technical schooling...
...Hoehn (who gave Yale's Don Dell two tough sets last Saturday), Weld dropped the first two games, then reeled off eight in a row. Hoehn managed to pull up to 4-3 in the second set with a service break, but Weld broke his opponent in the eighth game, winning the final point on a beautiful crosscourt forehand that just nicked the tape...
Business Governor. Chapel Hill beckoned early to Luther Hodges, born March 9, 1898, eighth among nine children of a poor tenant farmer who gave up and moved into the textile-mill town of Spray (1950 pop. 5,500). Though Luther quit seventh grade to work in the mill (50? a day), he later saved $62.50, at 17 went off to work his way through Chapel Hill (class of '19). After college, he resolved to go back home and make his mark in the mills, in 17 years worked his way up to production manager of Marshall Field...
William Powell Lear is an inventive genius whose restless mind and huge energies have made him, at 56, the head of a $64 million business turning out close to 700 navigational, communications and control systems and devices for planes and missiles. Although he quit school in the eighth grade, Lear can sketch a complete instrument system for a single-engined plane or a jet transport on a nightclub napkin. In 1950, despite his well-earned reputation as a stay-up-all-night playboy, he won the Collier Trophy for distinguished service to aviation as a designer-manufacturer...