Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...L is for Lyndon, leader, wet nurse and a very unmythological character. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
There was deadly fighting yet to come and stirring history yet to be made. Montgomery drew the German armored strength onto the Second British Army and First Canadian Army at Caen, while the First U.S. Army broke out at St.-LÓ. Hitler and Rommel held back the German 15th Army near Calais, waiting for a second invasion that never came. George Patton, with his ivory-handled pistols, led the Third U.S. Army from Avranches to Le Mans to Orleans to Verdun to Metz in the most spectacular armored advance of the war. There was the unforgettable moment when Paris...
Nikita Khrushchev was thus conspicuously not at his desk on the day his Berlin ultimatum expired. But why else had he flown off to Albania? Rome's Communist L'Unitá volunteered one explanation: "The West should realize that if Khrushchev is hot, he can take a cooling swim in the Adriatic. The Socialist stronghold, which extends from the Elbe to the Red River of Viet Nam, also reaches from the Bering Strait to the Adriatic." Khrushchev himself, who did not go swimming, as usual put his presence to use. Barreling through Europe's wildest and remotest...
...first ballot, the Assembly elected the Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Miller as Moderator of the United Presbyterians for the next year. Greying, articulate Dr. Miller, 59, son of an Indiana farmer, and a graduate of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary, is pastor of Denver's Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church (membership: 4,300). The church's greatest problem, Moderator Miller told reporters, is reconciliation. "With racial antagonisms, with divorce, juvenile delinquency, and the frantic pace of life these days, the church has a ministry of reconciliation to help people understand each other...
Senior Class Day Officers have recently been announced by the 1959 Class Committee. They are: Paul W. Schwartz, Class Orator; Gregory M. Harvey, Ivy Orator; Arthur Freeman, Class Poet; Thomas G. Beveridge, Class Chorister; and Tom L. Freudenheim, Class Odist...