Word: raymonde
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Died. Major General Raymond W. Bliss, 77, former (1947-51) Army Surgeon General who, as his service's top medical officer, was instrumental in unifying the armed forces medical-supply system, pushed for higher fitness standards among draftees, and generally improved combat medical facilities to the point where he was able to report a Korean War death rate among wounded of just under 2% (vs. 4.5% in World War II); of complications from emphysema; in Tucson, Arizona...
...Defense Department amounts to more than $300 million, and at least another $200 million in contracts is planned for coming months. The projects are being carried out by four private U.S. construction and engineering firms that have banded together in a giant venture called RMK-BRJ. The four: Raymond International of Manhattan, Morrison-Knud-sen of Boise, Idaho (sponsor of the combine), Brown & Root of Houston and J. A. Jones of Charlotte, N.C. RMK-BRJ employs 1,433 American civilians and 22,710 Vietnamese on 40 major projects and 100 lesser ones...
Last week, Raymond Luzzana, one of those arrested received a reclassification and a notice of delinquency from the Detroit draft board. The letter notified him that he had violated section 12A of the Universal Military Training and Manpower Act of 1948, which makes it a felony for anyone to hinder its operation...
...year ago, noted Journalist Raymond Cartier saw Johnson as a "professional politician" completely lacking in "the serene authority of Eisenhower, the charm and romanticism of Kennedy." Cartier found something almost sinister in the fact that Lady Bird, upon reading "Quiche Lorraine" on a White House menu, scratched it out and wrote in: "Cheese Custard Pie." Cartier has since come around to an appreciation of Johnson that might satisfy even Johnson. "Because of him, I see America in the process of launching into a second revolution," says Cartier, "a peaceful revolution brought about with increasing worker ownership of capital, the triumph...
...Raymond A. Paynter, curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and his wife have been released from the hospital in Cuenca, Ecuador. They will fly to New York Thursday night and spend a few days with their family in Hamden, Connecticut, before returning to Cambridge...