Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Estimates are that Quemoy can hold out past Christmas unless the Reds drastically step up their bombardment. Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, declared last week that with the start of the monsoon season, the Reds have missed any chance to invade Quemoy this year. But the monsoon also hampers the effort to supply the island. And to the weary, frustrated defenders of Quemoy, even the arrival of all the alligators, oil drums, food cases and medicine packages in the Far East would not be a completely effective answer to the relentless fire from...
...Copacabana. Does that mean she plans to stick entirely to pop songs? Not at all, says Ella. "I sing like I feel. Sometimes some of the fellas say, 'What's the matter, Ella, you goin' square?' And I tell them, 'I'm not goin' square, I'm going versatile...
...Yale's Coach Jordan Olivar, who earlier criticized the rule ("I'm disgusted. It's an unimportant change"), found out just how important it was. Yale scored first, ran for two points for an 8-0 lead, forced Connecticut to go for two late in the game. Connecticut missed, and Yale had a hair-thin 8-6 victory. ¶ Ohio State's Frank Kremblas succeeded on two pass conversions, found that they made the difference in a 23-20 victory over Southern Methodist, which could complete only one pass in three after touchdowns...
...Everybody likes to give money," says Chatô. "Brazilians like big things, and everybody knows I'm doing big things for Brazil." Few of his countrymen dare or care to quibble; one Brazilian industrialist who balked found himself labeled in Chatô's press as "a bandit, looter, pachyderm, hippopotamus, Berber filibuster, Barbary pirate." Typical contributors: Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli, Banker (and former Ambassador to Washington) Walther Moreira Salles, Industrialist Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari (occasional playmate of Linda Christian). Chatô himself is the most generous giver, but seems almost ashamed to admit that he ever had to reach...
...press conference called by Arkansas' Governor Orval E. Faubus one day last week, the Rev. M. L. Moser Jr. of Little Rock, Ark. read a statement signed by 80 ministers...