Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain suffered its worst humiliation in years when Jordan's young King Hussein sacked the famed Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb and sent him out of the country under armed guard. In the golden years when Britain's political writ ran clear and strong through all the ancient kingdoms from Egypt to Iran, Britain created Jordan. Over the years Britain protected the new Arab nation, supported it, gave it an army that was the Arab world's finest. Britain educated its young King, helped maintain him on his throne as it had his grandfather before...
...small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made...
Married. Pacharabul Pibulsonggram, 22, daughter of Thailand's Prime Minister P. Pibulsonggram; and U.S. Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Ralph Perrotta, 22; at Quonset Point Naval Air Station...
...Marine Lieut. Santee threatened a court fight to regain his amateur standing. Controversy raged on the sports pages. Why pick on Santee, the best the U.S. has for the Olympics? track fans asked. But the argument seemed academic. Even if the A.A.U. reinstates Santee, said the International Olympic Committee's highhanded president, Avery Brundage, Santee will never run in the Olympics. "There is enough evidence on him right now without any further investigation...
...sturdiest military opponent of the golpistas was majestic, stony-faced Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, War Minister under President João Café Filho, Vargas' successor. No great admirer of Kubitschek, non-political General Lott felt, nevertheless, that the army's clear duty was to accept the voters' decision and uphold the constitution. With most of the key army commanders on his side, Lott had enough firepower to keep the anti-inauguration camp from even trying to bring off a golpe-so long as he remained War Minister. To be on the safe side, Lott...