Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 6-17 pilots who worked out U.S. long-range bombing techniques. A top technician, he helped to develop retractable landing gear, variable pitch propellers, and a long line of U.S. combat planes. In World War II he led fighter forces in Italy, ended up commanding the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Forces, flew 19 combat missions himself...
...foundryman in a Detroit war plant. Today Yerby lives on the French Riviera with his tiny, light-skinned wife Flora and their four children. When he is not whipping out profitable prose in his villa garden in Cimiez, Nice. Author Yerby goes skin-diving in the Mediterranean, skiing in the Alps or whizzing off in his Jaguar XK 120 to attend sports-car races...
...popular sport for England's colonial possessions is pulling the tail of the British lion, whether by asking for independence or more economic support. The most persistent of recent irritations comes from the strategically located island of Cyprus, rising from the Mediterranean within gunshot of Turkey. The Cypriots have pleaded for independence, but the British answer has been as blunt and undignified as a punch in the nose...
...purported leftist leanings of himself and his wife Edwina. When the first rumor of his new appointment leaked out some months ago, Lord Beaverbrook protested in his Sunday Express: "If it is offered he should refuse it." But, as last Viceroy of British India, as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and lately as head of all NATO naval forces in the Mediterranean, Earl Mountbatten has shown himself an able officer. Last week, even Beaverbrook's Sunday Express was forced to admit: "There can be no objection to his naval record...
Reporters charged into the little village of Bandol, France, to corner elusive Cinemactor Marlon Brando, 30, who finally admitted that he is engaged to marry pretty Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, stepdaughter of a local Mediterranean fisherman. But that was about all the information the reporters got that they might depend on-for Brando, in his own unpredictable way, frequently likes to play the merry wild goose. Like lovers in a gay French film, the couple first talked about the romance that neither Louella Parsons nor Hedda Hopper in their wildest moments had predicted. Josane, who used to pose...