Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he waited for company from Capitol Hill, the President put in a busy week, full of official comings & goings. Winston Churchill arrived for the full brandy-and-cigar treatment at a formal presidential dinner in Blair House (see The Nation). There was a little dinner for outgoing Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and, later, a surprise ceremony to give Jim the Distinguished Service Medal. Incoming Secretary Louis Johnson was eager to take over, so the transfer was moved ahead four days, and early this week he was publicly installed at the Pentagon in the biggest swearing-in ceremony...
...Asia. Last week Karen tribesmen, mostly Baptist, held much of Burma's richest land. They had taken Mandalay, and were in control of the Irrawaddy valley; their guns ringed the capital, Rangoon. Two months ago whole regiments of Karens rose in open rebellion against the government. The tough hill tribesmen, led by a handsome ex-Rangoon lawyer, Saw Ba U Gyi, had grown tired of waiting for the infant Burma Union to grant their demand for a separate state. They planned their attack for a propitious time, and then they struck...
After Monday and Tuesday engagements in Chapel Hill, the varsity journeys on to Annapolis and West Point for matches with the service academies. Although Navy and Army are strong, Barnaby thinks his men may be able to learn enough against North Carolina to surprise the Middles and Cadets...
Their first meet is against North Carolina on Tuesday. The men from Chapel Hill shut out Harvard last year, 27 to 0, and still claim as their number one man Harrie Ward, winner of the North-South open tournament...
...Martin, of Stuyvesant High School, New York, Gilbert R, Panzer, of Newtown High School, Elmhurst, New York; Earl C. Ravenal, of Hope High School, Providence; Neil J. Smelser, of Phoenix Union High School, Phoenix, Arizona; David K. Specter, of Brooklyn Technical High School; Isaac Thomas, Jr., of the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; and David B. Tyack, of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...