Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently slipped into Seoul, feared that a reception by high brass might be a tipoff to Ike's arrival. Ike, bundled in an overcoat, climbed into a sedan and the convoy rolled quietly into Seoul through the windy, subfreezing (18°) night. When his car pulled up at Eighth Army headquarters, U.N. Commander Mark Clark and the Eighth Army's James Van Fleet stepped out of the shadows for a handshake and an old friends' greeting. Then they hustled Ike inside for a turkey sandwich, a cup of hot chocolate and a bull session...
...seven American participants returned from last summer's general session of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (the eighth having remained in Europe for a year of study), we read with considerable surprise and consternation Mr. Amfitheatrof's article of November 21. In it he has included several misstatements of fact and has also misconstrued the tenor of the Seminar...
...first five will be unchanged, with Ufford, Watts, Hadden Tomes, Charlie Elliott, and Larry Brownell playing in that order. Johnny Rauh has moved up to the sixth spot. Mike Ward will play in the seventh position, Guy Paschal eighth, and Bill Wister ninth. Steve Sonnabend is the alternate...
Family & Early Years: Born March 17, 1899, in Pinconning, Mich., where his father ran a general store. At 13, after finishing the eighth grade, he went to work as a mail boy for the Weston-Mott Co. (auto axles) in Flint. During World War I, he worked as an ammunition inspector in the Flint Chevrolet plant; after the war he opened a real-estate brokerage with his father. In 1929, he opened a Chevrolet agency which he built into one of the largest auto agencies...
...buzzed across the long-distance grapevine and irked even some of Taft's close friends. Knowland, 44, ranks 17th on the Republican seniority list. Why, asked the G.O.P. seniors, should Knowland be catapulted into the policy chairmanship over such venerable heads as Colorado's Eugene Millikin, ranked eighth, or Nebraska's Hugh Butler, fifth? There was no doubt that Bob Taft could corral enough votes to get the job if he wanted to fight for it. In the interests of party harmony, however, the odds grew that the next Senate majority leader would be neither Taft...