Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waiting for the trip home, Columbine's commander, Lieut. Colonel William G. Draper, who flew Ike at SHAPE, kept his eight-man crew in peak sharpness. They flew around Denver at least four hours a week (minimum: 30 hours monthly), made at least one weekly round trip to Washington at the 13,000-to-15,000-ft. altitude planned for taking the President home. "A flying plane," said Pilot Draper, "is a safe plane...
...leave from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve to help put the international goodwill situation well in hand for the State Department, ist Lieut. Bob Mathias, 24, world and Olympic (1948, 1952) champion in the decathlon, turned out for an exhibition in Teheran. As admiring Iranians watched, he let a shaven-topped lad touch his discus for good luck...
...Three months before the opening of the indoor-track season, Lieut. Wes Santee of the U.S. Marine Corps displayed mid-season form at an Olympic Carnival in New York's Madison Square Garden. Miler Santee easily outdistanced six competitors and ran the mile in 4:05.2, less than two seconds off the Garden record...
...title refers to the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, reputedly paved with gold, and the film begins as a Spanish expedition, led by Captain Gasper Portola (Anthony Quinn) and Lieut. José Mendoza (Richard Egan), forks horse and clatters away to find them. Friar Serra (Michael Rennie) goes along as chaplain of the band, hoping to found missions among the California Indians...
Drought, starvation, scurvy, typhus and sandstorms lash the little caravan, while behind the yuccas yuk some of the most unseemly aborigines ever calcimined. Before long the padre wins them over with beads and scissors and sweet charity, but Lieut. Mendoza quickly reconverts the tribe to barbarism. He seduces a pretty Indian girl (Rita Moreno...