Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence. Raul Castro, onetime traveler behind the Iron Curtain, now commander of Cuba's armed forces, boasts: "We are a political army. We fought to transform the economic and social structure of the nation." Assisting Raul are Reds or pinks in top army spots, including the army inspector general, the commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, the commander of La Cabana's 7th Regiment, the army legal chief in Oriente, the military commander of Las Villas district...
...Lockheed F-104G Starfighters, to be made under license in Canada. The Starfighter holds both the world's official speed (1,404 m.p.h.) and airplane altitude (91,249 ft.) records, fills the bill for a ground-attack reconnaissance fighter urged on the Canadian Cabinet by NATO's General Lauds Norstad when he visited Ottawa in May. Thus Canada remains four-square among the substantial military supporters of NATO...
Despite the continuance of polio, Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the PHS said last week that the Salk killed-virus vaccine has proved 90% effective. The trouble is that an estimated 40 million Americans in the susceptible undergo age group have not taken the shots...
...million oral doses of vaccine that offer immunity to the three types of polio viruses (TIME, March 16). Lederle has tested the live-virus vaccine on 700,000 people, is hopeful that current tests in South America and the U.S. will prove its effectiveness and safety. Said Lederle General Manager Lyman C. Duncan: "The day is nearing when every newborn infant will be given half a teaspoonful of a clear liquid in his formula or drinking water before he leaves the hospital, which will protect him from paralytic polio during his childhood years...
...Clifford Chatterley (Leo Genn) with Sir Clifford's gamekeeper (Erno Crisa). According to a dozen or so U.S. movie reviewers, they saw a tasteful, well-acted, far from sensational film. Neither the French dialogue nor the English subtitles had recourse to the four-letter words that prompted Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield to ban the book itself from the U.S. mails (TIME, June 22). But to the Supreme Court, the quality of the movie was less important than the content of the New York code that condemned...