Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of an average American household is beset, from breakfast to bedtime, by a multitude of problems. He is expected to cope with everything from mortgages and merit badges to carburetors and kittens. The President of the U.S., as head of a family of 162 million and a leading figure in the neighborhood of nations, has similar headaches, multiplied a millionfold. Last week, at a lengthy cleanup press conference before he leaves for a Denver vacation. President Eisenhower let the White House reporters in on a few of the staggering problems that currently preoccupy...
...pies," but the Vicksburg scale models now allow the engineers to predict and combat great river floods with amazing accuracy. Vogel later served as district Army engineer in Pittsburgh and Buffalo, and lieutenant governor of the Panama Canal Zone. During World War II, he won the Legion of Merit for home-front engineering projects and the Distinguished Service Medal for service in the Pacific. His present station is division engineer for Southwestern states. Now 53, Vogel will retire from the Army August...
Further recognizing the new importance of Thailand's armed forces, Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway conferred Legion of Merit medals on General Srisdi and his chief of staff, Lieut. General Jira Vichitsonggram. Then the Thailanders enplaned for Bangkok to build new, stronger dikes against the Red tide...
...President formally apologized to Gates, and the Marines' survival was assured. His Commandant's term at an end, Cliff Gates served out his time as chief of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. This week old (60) Leatherneck Gates, D.S.C., Navy Cross, D.S.M., Legion of Merit, Silver Star, was retired with a 17-gun salute and an elaborate ceremony. "Tripe," hard-boiled Cliff Gates called it, blinking down the mist in his eyes. The country needs toughening up, he said, and the Marine Corps needs "tough fighters." After all, "that's what...
Robert C. Lasch '54 won the $160 Philip Washburn Prize "for the best thesis, of sufficient merit, on an historical subject." His thesis was entitled, "Imperialism and the Independents: a Conflict of Allegiance...