Word: hoyt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important mission fell to General Hoyt Vandenberg, boss of the U.S. Air Force: finding enough air bases in Europe for NATO's air needs. At present, the U.S.'s major continental air bases are in Germany, only a few minutes' jet flying time from Communist Czechoslovakia. In case of war, the Red air force could strike damaging blows at these fields before the U.S. fighters could get into the air. Urgently needed: 100 airfields in Western Europe, most of them in France, farther away from the Red border. The French have promised to cooperate in building...
Devastating Shoestring. The Air Forces' General Hoyt Vandenberg used his time chiefly to lobby for more airplanes. In his enthusiasm, he scooted in & out of a series of contradictions without so much as a furrow on his handsome, unlined face...
Collins enlisted Baptist Minister Hoyt Farr and Methodist Minister Roland Walker as witnesses, set forth one night for the Hunt and Lido Clubs, in dry Clayton County. Collins talked his way past burly bouncers and a front door with iron bars, got a minister ("my buddy") into each club with him. In his column, he reported what they had seen: "The Hunt Club [has] a well-stocked bar ... big stacks of gambling chips and the biggest crap or gaming table you are likely to see in these parts ... At the Lido Club there is a gambling room with...
Harvard and Yale crews will meet June 22, in the oldest intercollegiate athletic event in America, Hoyt C. Pease, chairman of the regatta committee, said yesterday...
Students and facultymen did see something wrong. For weeks they grumbled about it, and one instructor named Hoyt Bowen went so far as to denounce Moseley in chapel. Last week after Bowen was fired for "insubordination," the revolt broke out in earnest. At separate mass meetings, majorities of the faculty and student body rallied behind Bowen', passed resolutions of advice to the college administration about the Moseley-Armstrong money: give it back...