Word: millard
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Haled before a special congressional committee chaired by Maryland's veteran Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, Senator McCarthy replied with thousands of words of obfuscation and counterattack, identified not a single Communist Party member in the Government. The Tydings committee called his charges "a fraud and a hoax." The Truman Administration was part of the history of "20 years of treason," McCarthy insisted-as he kept on making headlines...
Then Joe turned publicity to political profit. He took off after Millard Tydings, helped smear Tydings into defeat in what a Senate investigating committee later called a "despicable back-street type of campaign." Among Government employees and officials-even among his own Senate colleagues-the McCarthy legend grew, and with it the fear that opposition to McCarthy's crusade would turn him upon them as he had turned on Tydings, for in Joe's book, a McCarthy critic was either a Communist or a fool...
...born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (Little, Brown; $35), he enlisted the University of Miami's David Ralph Millard Jr., 37, a kindred spirit and former pupil. Utterly different from anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting of plastic surgery history and techniques onto a chatty life history of Innovator Gillies (known to colleagues...
...Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later in World...
Although he has never won in two tries for the Senate and two for governor, the jubilant Mahoney figured that this is his year. Other Democrats were considerably less optimistic. Crumped National Committee Chairman Paul Butler, who had expected Millard Tydings to win in November: "With George Mahoney, there is a question...