Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handle the U.S. mediation effort the State Department last week named tall, leathery Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, 63, one of the State Department's three career ambassadors (equals five-star military rank). An old hand at apparently hopeless diplomatic assignments, Wisconsin-born Robert Murphy was sent to North Africa early in World War II to persuade the proconsuls of Vichy France they must not seriously oppose the impending U.S.-British invasion. After the war, he played a leading role in the settlement of the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Late last week, with the quiet...
...pretty 21-year-old wife (or mistress). Three of the conspirators had fought for North Korea during the war, had been captured, "renounced Communism," then enlisted in the South Korean army. They had all been in touch, said the police, with one Kang, "a North Korean agent with rank equivalent to a Deputy Premier...
...rebel colonels were unintimidated by Djakarta's maneuvers, and as the week wore on they found some encouragement in reading news reports on Secretary of State Dulles' press conference in Washington.* To 10,000 cheering students. Colonel Ahmad Husein cried that he was submitting his military rank to the will of the people. Pulling off his epaulets, he flung them into the crowd. With equal sense of theater, the students shouted, "No. no, be our leader!", and several of them hurriedly fastened the insignia back on Husein's uniform with the cry of "Recommissioned by the people...
...thoughtful, middle-of-the-road Republican editorial page, the morning Post ("written and edited to merit your confidence") has won 65-statewide and national journalistic awards in the past five years, staked out a reputation as the Southwest's most readable daily. It has also seized the rank of Houston's No. I paper from the staunchly segregationist evening Chronicle, which in its dyspeptic distrust of Eisenhower Republicanism, the U.N., and U.S. allies often sounds like an oil-belt echo of the Chicago Tribune...
...varsity's offensive units, which have scored 29 goals in the last four games, now rank third in the East with 6.5 goals a game, behind Middlebury at 7.9 and B.U. at 7.1. The Crimson's first line of Cleary, Lyle Guttu, and Terry O'Malley has played its best hockey of the year in the latter half of the season and will start tonight...