Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named retiring Under Secretary of the Treasury W. Randolph Burgess, 68, of Queenstown, Md. to be permanent U.S. representative on the NATO Council with the rank of ambassador, replacing George W. Perkins, resigned. ¶Ordered, while weekending at Gettysburg, that the hurricane-blasted areas of Louisiana and Texas (see below) be made eligible for emergency financial aid from his $10 million disaster fund...
...court-martial board pondered just 40 minutes and handed down a wrist-tapping sentence of $100 a month less in pay for 15 months, suspension of rank for a year, i.e., no command job, but eligible for staff work, loss of privileges, and a reprimand. "The nation can relax and breathe easier now," said Counsel Jenkins. "We did all right," said Colonel Nickerson. "What have I got to appeal? I was guilty and was properly punished. If there had been no sentence at all, it would have undermined discipline in the Army...
...Second Rank. Behind these three is another trio, still not counted out. Adolfo López Mateos, 47, is the handsome Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, is on close terms with Ruiz Cortines, Cardenas and Aleman, but many politicians feel he should wait for 1964. Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores, 48, has masterminded Mexico's phenomenal economic boom, is generally regarded as the Cabinet's most brilliant member, but is not widely known. Ernesto Uruchurtu, 50, a former Interior Minister and now governor of the Federal District, has made fans through his drastic face lifting...
...official 31st birthday (she was born on April 21, 1926, but British monarchs are feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery old (78) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham became a Companion of Honour...
...languid, landlocked little Indo-Chinese kingdom of Laos, a man's rank is told by the color of his umbrella.. Old King Sisavang Vong, who reigns in the royal capital of Luang Prabang, rates a white umbrella. Lesser noble fry rate umbrellas of varying hues and sizes. Viceroys, for instance, are entitled to yellow...