Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Made plans to return to West Point this June for the first time since he became President. It will be the 40th reunion of his class (1915). Classmates include General James A. Van Fleet. General of the Army Omar N. Bradley and Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer...
...first post, No. 2 in the Ministry of Supply. Two years later, he was in North Africa as Churchill's Minister Resident and political troubleshooter. There he helped negotiate the settlement between France's Generals de Gaulle and Giraud, and became a good friend of Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower. With his "American connection," and acquaintanceships begun in North Africa, he feels a confident ease about relations with Washington. "We have been through it all together before," says Macmillan...
...name was handy, but some men felt that they were neglecting a fine opportunity to honor Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp (TIME. Jan. 10), the flight-surgeon rider on Holloman's terrifying rocket sled, who has probably taken more jolts than any other man. Now a new name for the new unit-the "stapp"-is well established. Colonel Stapp has joined the select company of men, e.g., Watt, Volta, Ampere,* whose names have been given to a physical unit of measurement...
...record or did he remember a decision that he reached at that time as to the rightness or wrongness of Yalta? The President was brisk-and very positive. Said he: "No." Then he pointed out that he did not go to Yalta, but sent his chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, to the pre-Yalta conference at Malta to report on the military situation as it then existed in Europe...
Some of Madrid's changes were definitely for the worse. Offstage noises were technically poor; e.g., the departure of a jeep sounded more like the idling of a Flying Boxcar. Famed Mexican-born Actor Gustavo Rojo, as Lieut. Cable, was politely proper in his love scene with Liat (Maria Rey). And the lonely sailors were so surprisingly paired off with girls that the stage was cluttered with shapely dancers not quite sure of what they were there for. They were there because the censor ruled that a disproportionate number of men to women on stage smacked of homosexualism...