Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Colonel John Charles Nickerson Jr., 48, U.S. Army missileer who publicly attacked a 1956 Pentagon decision to limit the Army to short-range missiles, for which he earned a court-martial and a tour of duty in the Canal Zone, but vindication when an Army Jupiter put the first U.S. satellite into orbit; in an auto accident; near Alamogordo...
...effective weapons available were mortars and a few pistols. When the troops landed they went immediately to the Tanganyikan armory to rearm themselves, which explains why so many of the Tanganyikan soldiers were initially able to escape. The quartermaster in Aden has since been returned to England for court-martial...
...Colonel Robert Mitchum thinks. As an American Army officer full of paranoiac fantasies, Wynn has admitted killing a British noncom stationed at his jungle outpost of Bachree because the sergeant was "defiling the white race" by consorting with native women. Mitchum, assigned to defend Wynn in a general court-martial, thinks that motive irrational enough for Wynn to plead insane and save his neck...
...Fernando Belaúnde Terry has hesitated to intervene. But last week, when 8,000 peasants appeared at 14 haciendas near Cuzco in the southern highlands, troops drove them back in a pitched battle that left 17 dead, 32 wounded on both sides. Within hours, Belaúnde declared martial law in the area-and then pressed ahead with a reform program to give Peru's Indians by law what he cannot permit them to take by force...
...hobby in 1897, two years later branched into pianos. The company was near bankruptcy by 1926, but gradually found that aircraft parts could be made by using some of the same manufacturing techniques that were used for organs. After the war, the firm turned back to less martial music. Taking over the presidency from his ailing father in 1950, Genichi Kawakami, now 51, decided to replace the ancient handcrafter's art of piano making with automation...