Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar. At Edwards, Stapp found himself in command of 2,000 ft. of rail track, the Gee-Whizz (a rocket sled built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc.), a bare barracks that was supposed to serve as a lab, and seven hard-working Northrop employees. His mission: to determine human tolerance to deceleration so that adequate aircraft safety harnesses could be developed...
...Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion John B. Kelly (father of Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace Kelly...
...front men of his anti-church campaign: Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi (who departed in haste to Uruguay) and Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin. To replace them he swore in ("by God, the Fatherland and the Holy Gospels") a pair of party hacks: Oscar Edmundo Albrieu, 40, as Interior Minister, and Francisco Marcos Anglada, 38, as Education Minister. Both were moderate enough to represent a concession to the church, but Peronista enough to make it clear that Perón was not surrendering abjectly. Perón also dumped overboard Eduardo Vuletich, head...
...earlier years: Cipriano Reyes, who mobilized packinghouse workers to catapult Perón to power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired (he committed suicide...
...London, Sir Winston Churchill donned top hat and frock coat and turned up at the City's ancient Guildhall for the unveiling of a larger-than-life statue of himself by Sculptor Oscar Nemon. After one look he commented approvingly. But later, Author Gerald Hamilton, 67, a self-confessed "black sheep" of his family, interned in both World Wars for pro-German sympathies, announced that he had modeled for the body of the statue...