Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopes that the Russians will not be the first to garrison an orbit. (Last week the Russian magazine Ogonek predicted that the Soviet flag will be raised on the moon within 50 years.) Von Braun admits that his writings have been deliberate attempts to arouse popular enthusiasm and warm the cold feet of timid military planners. In writing for the public, he has had to omit convincing details that would have made his plan sound much more practical. During the last few years, he says, behind the wall of military secrecy there has been great progress. He believes that...
Other former college stars in action for the Business School were Sam Carnahan of Oklahoma, Ed Leede and George Bissell of Dartmouth, Dick Hammer of Princeton, Ted Hummell of Lafayette, Dick Garrison of Trinity, Pat Parker of Williams, Tom Bushman of Notre Dame, Jack Hoffmire of Rutgers, and Pete Hager of Princeton...
...boast that men should "grow sick at the sight of [their] black coats." At Niirnberg, before the court of world opinion, they were forever condemned for crimes against humanity. Yet last week the SS (full name: Schutzstaffel) marched again, jack boots ringing on the cobblestones of the garrison town of Verden in lower Saxony...
...POLLARD GARRISON Hollywood, Calif...
Army Career. Egypt's tiny army, a bare-bones auxiliary to Britain's Middle East garrison, had little to offer its peacetime subalterns except barracks-room blues and $1.65 a day. Promotions came slowly for those who, like Naguib, refused to kowtow to palace lackeys. So Naguib assuaged his boredom by taking courses in law and political economy. He also taught himself to speak German, French and Italian as well as fluent English. (He is currently learning Hebrew...