Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week 45 ranking officers, headed by Chief of Staff Alvaro Fiuza de Castro, called to pay holiday respects to War Minister General Newton Estilac Leal. In the exchange of compliments, General Fiuza took occasion to deplore "the sinister infiltrations . . . that are penetrating our armed forces." General Estilac, a leftist who has consistently refrained from getting tough with Communists in the army, answered that "unscrupulous agents of intrigue are trying to foment disunion and mutual distrust with unfounded, unpatriotic accusations impugning the honor of high government officials...
...Selected Letters of Henry Adams, edited by Newton Arvin. Memorable commentary on two generations of U.S. life, by a brilliant and introspective man who grew up thinking that the presidency was a family trade (TIME...
Tenley Albright, 16, of Newton Center, Mass., a blue-eyed blonde who did her practicing in leopard-skin tights, but put on a more conservative black & red outfit for the competition. A Boston Skating Club protegee of Old Pro Willie Frick, willowy (5 ft. 6 in., 120 Ibs.) Tenley Albright recovered well enough from a 1947 attack of polio to be runner-up in this year's nationals...
...Selected Letters of Henry Adams, edited by Newton Arvin. Memorable commentary, mostly disenchanted, on two generations of U.S. life, by a brilliant and introspective man who grew up thinking that the presidency was a family trade (TIME...
...Women's division, 16-year-old Tonley Albright of Newton Centre, Mass., won first place, beating Sonya Klopfer, who outpointed her for the Women's National Championship last spring. Virginia Baxter, a Michigan State freshman who is more noted for free skating than figure skating, turned in a fine performance to take third place...