Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waved Off. The Egyptians stopped dragging their feet on Suez Canal clearance long enough to say that they had found no explosives in the sunken tug Edgar Bonnet-presumably enabling 71-year-old Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, chief of the U.N. salvage force, to get on at last with clearing the canal's last big obstructions. Engineer Wheeler himself, in a black Homburg, tried to approach the tug by boat but was waved off by the Egyptians, and with his usual care not to give or take offense, agreed that he should have made an appointment first...
...dozen revolutionary movements-among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian, who won Sukarno's affections while serving as his bodyguard. Colonel Sumual had the backing of 51 East Indonesian political and military leaders...
...their friend, a prominent screenwriter named Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, who died in 1947. Starting adult life as a naval aviator, Commander Wead joined the daredevil team that brought the Schneider Cup to the U.S. for the first time in 1923.* Wead himself once set five world records with Lieut. John Price, and at 30, he became (according to studio publicity) the youngest squadron commander in the Navy's history...
...international seaplane speed trophy was actually won by Lieut. David Rittenhouse, one of Wead's teammates...
...Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later...