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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cops were not abashed. Headquarters immediately leaked a rumor intended to intimidate the council-that 2,000 bluecoats would quit en masse if the law was passed. The firemen-at least on the surface-struck the same defiant pose. The association not only gave Purcell a vote of confidence, but decided to continue his salary out of union funds and kick through with all the money he needed for his defense...
...Istanbul, the press proudly announced that Major Sabiha Gökçen, 36, adopted daughter of the late great Atatürk and a regular Turkish Air Force pilot, had volunteered for combat in Korea, would soon be on her way. In 1935 she flew against Kurdish rebels...
...Disciples of Christ wanted the nomenclature kept "fluid and descriptive." The Congregationalists complained of ambiguity. Episcopal Bishop Stephen E. Keeler of Minnesota, present only as an observer, deplored the plan's cavalier treatment of the sacraments and its concept of the ministry. Methodist Bishop Oxnam (see below), en route to a World Council of Churches meeting in Paris, wrote that he was "confused and disappointed" by the plan for the new church; he thought it would be a surrender of Protestantism to the "anarchy" of "Congregationalism...
...broadcast from Peking, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai spurned the Assembly Cease-Fire Committee's third proposal in four weeks for a truce in Korea. It was a trick, he cried, designed "to give the United States troops a breathing space." He demanded abject U.N. surrender...
...Zealand-1,100 men, en route, two corvettes...