Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most successful U.S. cattle breeders (Aberdeen-Angus). Hackney has a daughter and two sons, one son at Princeton ('53). He particularly remembers Stevenson's Hudson Super-Six roadster, which, to be kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field of 22, in the yearbook classification, "Thinks He Is the Biggest Fusser [i.e., Ladies' Man]." Hackney and Stevenson toured Spain in the summer of 1921, several times got into trouble...
...weather was broiling hot. It was just two years ago, in similar weather, that the first brigade of Marines arrived at Pusan to help hold the allied beachhead. Last spring the division, now commanded by Major General John T. Selden, was due to go into reserve. But Selden, a tall, sharp-eyed Virginian who enlisted as a Marine private in 1915, asked General Van Fleet to keep the division fighting. Van Fleet agreed, and assigned the Marines to the Panmunjom sector, astride the invasion route from Pyongyang to Seoul...
...Cornell had a distinguished visitor last week-Oxford University Don David Butler, who calls himself the world's first psephologist. That, says he, is a man who specializes in the study of elections; the word comes from the Greek for pebble ("You know how they used to hold their elections by dropping pebbles in a box"). Psephologist Butler admitted that the coinage was a joke, "but for all I know, the word may some day catch...
...problem, said U.S. Delegate Warren Lee Pierson, T.W.A. chairman and an old hand at international financial powwows, was "probably the most complicated in financial history." Last week, at a press conference in Manhattan, Pierson announced that the problem had been settled. It was good news to U.S. investors, who hold nearly half of all the German bonds sold abroad and who have received no interest or principal for some 18 years. Under the terms of the agreement, said Pierson, they will eventually get back their principal and most of their interest...
Guderian agrees that Hitler alone ran the war; Himmler, Göring and Goebbels feared him as much as did the generals. After the assassination attempt in 1944 (which Guderian still deplores as unsoldierly and un-Christian), only complete sycophants could hold their jobs. But there was one exception: Guderian. He was called back twice, once to rebuild the Panzer armies and set up the Eastern defenses, again to hold the biggest job of all: chief of the general staff...