Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. General Thomas S. Power, 51, picks up four-star rank as LeMay's hand-picked successor as boss of SAC. Long Island-born Bomber-Specialist Power quit the twelfth grade to work, joined up as an Army Air Corps flying cadet at 23, in World War II successfully led the first low-level B-29 fire raid on Tokyo for LeMay's long-range 21st Bomber Command. For six years he was LeMay's deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper...
...ranch for breeding high-grade rams to improve Navajo herds...
...Ellises were Jewish, began fighting to have Hildy turned over to a Catholic agency. Massachusetts courts ordered the Ellises to do so; instead, they .left their Boston home, took Hildy to Florida. Last week, returning from the hearing to Miami Beach, where Hildy was about to graduate from first grade, Frances Ellis collapsed in her plane seat, mumbled "Thank God, thank God." Hildy will be free to choose her own religion, say the Ellises, when she is old enough...
...McClellan, sometime farmer himself, schoolteacher and country editor, longtime lawyer and dabbler in Democratic politics, was quite a man. He remarried in three years, started tutoring John when the boy was four. He pushed hard and John gritted himself ahead, within two years was doing fine in the fourth grade of Ike's school. When Ike turned from teaching to politics, he took John along on the political trail...
...Peking emboldened students called for the withdrawal of the Communist control group in Peking University. (This development so unnerved the university's dean that he threatened to resign.) Meantime, all over China party dignitaries dutifully turned to toil. At one collective farm 33 generals and 127 field-grade officers suddenly appeared and pitched in to help flabbergasted peasants with the weeding and manure-hauling. In the capital itself Minister of Marine Products Hsu Teh-heng, 63, spent a day as a fish porter-a sight which, according to Radio Peking, "greatly inspired" the populace...