Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, Strauss's predecessor at the AEC, Gordon Dean, was less inhibited by official responsibility. "America must realize," said he, "that the Russians have a strong atomic potentiality, strong scientific talent, great engineering know-how, vast deposits of ore, and the police state in which all these things can be effectively combined. Under such conditions it would be both foolish and extremely dangerous for America to assume Malenkov was lying...
...Bronk, a physiologist like his predecessor, has been on one of the institute's boards while heading Johns Hopkins. Soon he will reverse the roles, remaining a trustee of the university. His forte, demonstrated both at Hopkins and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: a great ability to harmonize the scattered chords of specialized research, and to coax specialized researchers to play together like an orchestra...
Died. Colonel Joseph Ingham Greene, 55, editor and general manager of the Army's unofficial trade publication, Combat Forces Journal (circ. 29,400), and its predecessor, Infantry Journal; of a heart attack; in Newark...
That night Ike settled into the South Dakota State Game Lodge where, in 1927, Calvin Coolidge outraged the nation's anglers by admitting that he was fishing for trout with worms. Redeeming his predecessor's conduct (which was denounced on the Senate floor by the late James A. Reed of Missouri), Ike offered the French Creek trout dry flies and a Colorado spinner. In a full day's fishing he caught a dozen trout. The biggest: a 15-incher weighing more than...
...Arab-Israeli war, Jewish terrorists of the Stern Gang and Irgun Z-vai Leumi encircled Deir Yassin, an Arab village a few miles west of Jerusalem, and by loud speaker demanded its surrender. Their leader carried a cautionary wire from the regional commander of the Haganah, the predecessor of the Israeli army: "I learn you plan an attack on Deir Yassin. I have no objection [but] I warn you against blowing up the village...