Word: everests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper of Air Research & Development, where he ably shepherded the growth of missile and jet design. Power won the SAC job over Lieut. General Frank F. Everest and old SACman Lieut. General Emmett (Rosie) O'Donnell Jr., Air Force personnel director, who were the nominees of outgoing Air Force Chief Nate Twining (soon to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Lieut. General Frank F. Everest, 52, deft right hand to Nate Twining (as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations) gains a star, becomes head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Blunt, tobacco-chewing West Pointer Frank Everest is the Air Force's outstanding global Ops (Operations) brain, commanded a heavy-bomber group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a Pentagon planner. After duty in Alaska and with the Atomic Energy Commission, Everest, like Anderson, led the Fifth Air Force in Korea, came home to join the Air Force's inner circles...
...that glittery world and call it her own. She made it. Today more and more social climbing is merely the ascent from one suburban foothill to a slightly higher hill ; in Louise's day more dramatic mountaineering was frequent, and her own climb was a veritable conquest of Everest...
...born leader as well as a born pusher, Peter fights famines and bad drainage, jousts with floods, earthquakes and contumacious natives. He also decides to cross wills with "Meru," an Everest-class glacial peak, and coaxes the long-suffering Gerry to join him. They fail to scale the summit and Gerry comes back to the Savage home a nervous wreck, to be nursed back to health by Emily. She makes convalescent Gerry's bed and eventually lies in it. World War I shatters their illicit bliss and sweeps the two meninto their last mountain adventure this time...
...Negro population in the U.S. To win time, J. P. Coleman has set himself as the wedge between White Citizens' Councils and the N.A.A.C.P. "What we need." says Coleman, "is peace and quiet. What happened in Clinton, Tenn. will be like a boil on the side of Mount Everest compared to what could happen in Mississippi." Coleman's strategy-difficult to understand in the North, but bold for the Deep South-is to work for racial peace and quiet. Unlike many of his political predecessors, he refuses to exploit segregation as a political issue. Of five candidates...