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...Senate Finance Committee voted to extend social-security benefits to clergymen on a voluntary basis. They would have two years in which to elect coverage. The committee voted against coverage for professional groups such as doctors and lawyers but considered the clergy a special "hardship" case...
Good Customer. U.S. watch companies that have already become heavy importers of Swiss watch movements (e.g., Bulova, Gruen) had ex-Senator Millard Tydings to argue their case. Tydings ripped into the U.S. watchmakers' hardship story. He cited the fact that Hamilton's sales had jumped from...
...Marine Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...
...interception and confiscation of any further arms shipments from Communist sources to Guatemala;-2) a five-nation watchdog commission to enforce the arms quarantine and to keep an eye on Guatemalan infiltration among its neighbors; and 3) no action for the present on economic sanctions that might bring hardship to Guatemala's people...
...perilous job of flying supplies into Dienbienphu. Earthquake went among the first. The C-119s they flew were on loan from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. markings barely covered over with one coat of grey paint. The pay was good (about $3,000 a month, including hardship pay and overtime), but if pressed, Earthquake admitted to another reason. "Way I figure it, we either got to fight the bastards at home or fight them over here." When his CAT buddies howled with derisive laughter at the idea that their interests might be anything "other than mercenary or adventuresome, Earthquake...