Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months as full commander in Korea and close to 42 years in the Army as cadet and officer, rugged, flat-flanked General James Alward Van Fleet got the order that all soldiers await when they pass 60: report to Washington preparatory to retirement. His successor as commander of the Eighth Army: Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor...
...EIGHTH ARMY'S NEW COMMANDER...
...Fleet's attitude helped him in his policy of expanding and training the R.O.K. army as a combat force, which he did with singleminded stubbornness over high-level resistance, even in the Pentagon. His greatest achievement, however, was to build up and maintain the morale of the Eighth Army through endless months when there was little action and less hope of victory...
...result of such systematic repression of anti-Peronistas is that political conversations-except in private and out of earshot of servants or school-indoctrinated children-are unknown in the capital. In the eighth year of Perón, the atmosphere of constraint and fear that prevails in Buenos Aires is probably unequalled this side of the Iron Curtain...
...second year in a row (by seven votes): New York Giant First Baseman Bill Terry, the last National Leaguer to hit over .400 (lifetime average: .341), later a pennant-winning manager, who made no bones about his dislike for baseball writers. Eligible for the first time, and finishing eighth in the balloting (117 votes): New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio...