Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began like a trip to a church picnic. Crammed into the Land-Rover bouncing over South Viet Nam's heavily traveled Route 20 were American Missionary Elwood Jacobsen, 35, and Filipino Missionary Caspar Makil, 36, with their wives and five children. After months of ministering to primitive Vietnamese natives, the two missionaries and their families were headed for the Makil home near the mountain resort of Dalat...
...Reds opened up on the two unarmed families in a withering blast of carbine and submachine-gun fire. Three-year-old Thomas Makil fell with a bullet in his leg, and slugs ripped through his four-month-old sister Janie's body into her father, killing them both. Elwood Jacobsen jerked backward and fell dead into the road. "I started hollering 'Elwood, Elwood,' " said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but I got no answer." In a flash, the Reds disappeared into the jungle; moments later, a truckload of government troops lumbered into sight down the road. For the latest victims...
Povich reported that Marshall "left town, bag and baggage." Soon after Retired Air Force General Elwood R. Quesada, former chairman of the Federal Aviation Agency, bought into the Senators in 1960, the Post's Povich, egged on by Post Publisher Philip Graham, began complaining. Povich thought that baseball was too important to be entrusted to generals. The Senators finished last in 1962, and Quesada, smarting from numerous Povich attacks, sold out his interest last month for a profit. "The team, like Quesada." exulted Povich, "is richer for his retirement...
...Ford has "the roof that tops them all.") A more subtle piracy from Ford is the copying of the Lincoln Continental's smooth slab sides by Buick. Oldsmobile and Pontiac. Chrysler, too, is expected to follow this trend next year, now that the 1961 Continental's designer, Elwood Engel, has been lured away to be Chrysler's styling chief...
...will reverse Chrysler's decline-its share of the U.S. auto market has fallen from 18% in 1957 to a scant 9% at present-and tide the company over until it can bring out its '64s, which will more clearly show the influence of Stylist Elwood Engel, the former Ford designer who was chiefly responsible for the elegant 1961 Lincoln Continental and who skipped off to Chrysler last year...