Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forum has already ordered 3000 tickets for the speech, and Samuels said that it will print more if they are needed. After tickets are mailed to Forum subscribers during the week, general sale to University students will begin. Samuels added that the Forum would take mail orders from people outside the University if the stadium is used...
Claire Chennault died last year of cancer, Lieut. General U.S.A.F. (ret.). Before that, says this biographer, his persistent ailment had for years been nothing more deadly than a heavy heart. Author Robert Lee Scott Jr. ought to know. He flew in China with Chennault's legendary Flying Tigers, then commanded Chennault's fighter forces in what must have been one of the most gallant and frustrating wars ever fought. Flying Tiger an angry book, is almost as important for what it tells of its villains as it is for the love it accords to its hero. Yet, ironically...
...airpower in modern war. When war with Japan came, the Flying Tigers made up the only Allied air force in being in a critical battleground. Yet even after he had been put in command of a U.S. air force of his own and had won the rank of general, he was still treated as a crackpot, remained low man on the totem pole when it came to supplies. He was virtually pushed into retirement days before war ended and did not even get the courtesy of space on the battleship Missouri when the Japanese surrendered...
...General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). First act of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Maurice Evans and Piper Laurie...
...leading College official yesterday asked the Faculty to consider allowing advanced placement students to waive part of their General Education requirement...