Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free world last week people were saying that U.S. military men have no more political sense than so many boobies. Red China newspapers screamed that a U.S. general had confessed atrocities. At Tokyo's Haneda airport, General Mark Wayne Clark, the new Far East commander, watched his predecessor, General Matt Ridgway, fly happily off to the U.S., leaving Clark with a mess on his hands. Ample portions of blame had already been meted out to the two squirming brigadiers, Dodd and Colson, but some blame would undoubtedly fall on Ridgway and on the Eighth Army's Van Fleet...
...major command talent. General Curtis LeMay, who built SAC into a powerful ready-force, has been moved to Washington as Vandenberg's vice chief of staff (TIME, March 10). Curt LeMay switched jobs with General Nathan Twining, who helped build up SAC's World War II predecessor, the B-29 Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. Vandenberg is well anchored in Europe with Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, Eisenhower's air chief at SHAPE and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and in the Pacific with Lieut. General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland, commander of Far East...
...polyvinyl alcohol a thick plastic--was stretched. In the stretching, the molecules of the plastic would align themselves with their poles in the same direction. Land had a cheap, permanent device that was far more efficient, both in the transmission and the exclusion of light, than was its crystal predecessor...
...month, five-flights-up Rome apartment he rented even after becoming Premier. His grateful party last year gave him an eight-room villa and his salary has gone up to $500 a month. A kind of Latin Attlee, De Gasperi is the complete antithesis of his predecessor, Mussolini. Like Adenauer in Germany and Schuman and Bidault in France-Roman Catholics all-De Gasperi belongs to that underrecognized group of Christian Democrats who have done most to save postwar Western Europe. At a time when the left was divided in Marxist confusion, and the right was discredited by its past...
Wynn is very optimistic about the '55 squad which he compares favorably with its predecessor. Though the current group may not have the same depth of players as the '54 team, he feels that it is still "quite promising." He wouldn't discuss, however, the chances for his second straight undefeated season...