Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American aid will be needed to bail the English and French out of this mess. The money will come from the usual place -the pocket of the American taxpayer. So now we Americans are unpopular over there. Well, O.K., old buddies, if you don't like our peaches, quit shaking our tree...
...Aaron Wilson share. Both come from Godfearing, churchgoing, poverty-ridden families. Pate's parents own a farm in the poor clay hills of southern Illinois; Wilson's live in a rickety three-room house in a company-owned lumber town in north-central Louisiana. Both youths quit school early-Pate in the ninth grade, Wilson in the eighth. They were in the Army at 17, fighting in Korea as infantrymen in the U.S. 7th Division the following year. Both were captured near Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. After that came prison camp, Panmunjom and life under Communism...
...earlier stage than Ann Smith did, i.e., while they still have active alcoholic mates on their hands. One such recruit was Grace T., a schoolteacher brought in by Ann. "I've never seen anyone so close to flying apart," says Ann. "She'd had to quit teaching school; she was doing her children more harm than good. Well, now Grace has been going to my group for two years. Her husband is still drinking, harder than ever, and nobody knows it better than Grace. But I've never seen such a change in a person...
...Mutual Life Insurance Co. He went into the Army in 1942 as a 2nd lieutenant, emerged three years later a colonel and secretary to the General Staff at SHAEF. After a spell in the State Department, he was assistant to T.W.A. President Jack Frye in 1946-47. When Frye quit to run General Aniline & Film, Burgess went along, later was tapped to head a study of White House organization...
...Jacov Levi, United Nations correspondent since 1953 for Yugoslavia's official Communist paper Borba. Levi, 35, quit the party and his job in Manhattan, explained that Tito's defense of Russian intervention in Hungary and the arrest of former Yugoslav Vice President Milovan Djilas (TIME, Dec. 3) had convinced him that "the promised liberation and democratization in my country have reached a dead-end street." Levi, the only Red correspondent accredited to U.N. forces in Korea in 1951, asked asylum...