Word: headed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cold War battle to head off the kind of world the Communists want, the U.S. has never been too specific about the kind of world the U.S. wants. Last week, speaking in his old home town of Abilene, Kans. (see below), President Eisenhower sought to sketch in bold lines the free world's hopes for the future: a sound "world economy" binding together a "world community of free nations, characterized by peace and by justice." Within mankind's reach, said he, is "a free, rich, peaceful future, in which all peoples' can achieve ever-rising levels...
...take him to Los Angeles on Nov. 12 for a luncheon speech before the World Affairs Council. By no coincidence, he will arrive in Los Angeles as the Western States Republican Conference assembles, and he has left time on his schedule for friendly, probing chats. Next day he will head for San Francisco to address the Press and Union League Club, then on to Salem, Ore. on Nov. 14 for a speech at Willamette University. At trail's end will be Oregon's youthful (37) Governor Mark Hatfield-who dreams...
...plan known as SHO-1, aimed at bringing "general decisive battle." SHO1 called for a pincers movement against the U.S. landing forces in Leyte Gulf. The strongest Japanese force, under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, was to steam through the Sibuyan Sea, debouch through San Bernardino Strait (see maps) and head south to Leyte Gulf. Two smaller forces, operating independently under Vice Admirals Shoï Nishimura and Kiyohide Shima, were to come through Surigao Strait, move north and close the pincers with Kurita. Meanwhile, a fleet under canny old Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, with carriers for bait, was charged with decoy...
When William S. Barnes was an undergraduate at Yale, he was, he says, a very active "man around the campus." He was business manager of the Yale Record, manager of the 150-lb. football team, head cheerleader, member of the varsity hockey and rugby teams, and captain of his College crew. Twenty years later, as Assistant Dean of the Harvard Law School, he is still the widely-ranging "man around the campus." Originator and director of the International Legal Studies program and co-ordinator of the World Tax Series, he has now undertaken a different type of activity--running...
...Head Diplomat Leaves Moscow...