Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army generals who had been suspended from duty since they bobbed up in the Senate's investigation of five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.) got the word from on high last week. Major General Herman Feldman was reprimanded for passing out information on Government purchasing plans, but restored to duty as the Army's Quartermaster General. Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, who had tried to wangle a second term as chief of the Chemical Corps by running down all his potential rivals, was sacked: he went into retirement on a $6,600-a-year pension...
Howard B. Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
...Psycho?" Outside a policeman lobbed a tear-gas bomb through a window. The choking fumes drove Unruh downstairs. In a few minutes he opened the back door and came out, hands high, apparently completely unconcerned. A cop scrambled forward, handcuffed him. As he was hurried off, to be questioned by police and psychiatrists, a harried and sweating cop snapped...
...first time since before the Spanish civil war, a visiting squadron of four U.S. warships (cruisers Columbus and Juneau, destroyers Stribling and Bordelon) steamed into the harbor of El Ferrol, where Francisco Franco was born. While ships of the Spanish Navy fired a salute, the U.S. vessels dropped anchor. High-ranking Spanish officials climbed aboard the flagship Columbus to greet Admiral Richard Conolly, Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. From then on, until the Americans left five days later, there was a round of receptions, dinners and ceremonies. U.S. sailors poured ashore to see the sights...
...afternoon, Franco in white admiral's uniform and Abdullah in kalpak boarded the Spanish cruiser Miguel de Cervantes. A high wind blew off Abdullah's kalpak but a lackey promptly produced another. All was shipshape as the Cervantes steamed proudly into El Ferrol to receive a 21-gun salute from other Spanish vessels and the visiting U.S. warships. Beaming with delight, Franco waved at the U.S. Marines as they presented arms while the Columbus band struck up Spain's national anthem, the Marcha Real...