Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Standard Oil Trust and amassed a billion dollars along the way. Grandfather Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, at the time senior Senator from Rhode Island, ruled the Senate and bellowed at the White House. The young Rockefellers, obviously, had wealth, power and prestige. But they were allowed to revel in none of the three. Instead, they learned their gentle father's code: "Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession a duty...
...mile arc along the coast (and 50 miles inland), the Sabres danced a jig around the MIGs. When the Nationalist pilots rolled back to Taipei to be saluted with firecrackers and garlanded with flowers, the scorecard read: ten MIGs downed, at least three others crippled. Nationalist losses: none...
Since the battle of Quemoy began Aug. 23, the Nationalists have downed 29 MIGs, damaged nine. Nationalist losses: none. A major factor is the superiority of Nationalist pilots, many of whom have logged up to 1,400 hours in the air, boast more flying and combat experience than U.S. pilots stationed on Formosa. The Communist pilots, kept from training by a jet-fuel shortage, have proved no match for them. The gun camera films show that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump...
...plebiscite has ever been held in Red China on the issue of Chiang Kaishek, and none ever will be. But there have been two occasions when Chinese were offered a free choice...
...most important of these research institutions, Guber said, is the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union at Moscow. There are several other research centers in the USSR, he said; but where a locality has none there is often a field house or a division of the Moscow center...