Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army proudly sent around the belated birth announcements last week of an integrated 150,000-man force, set up to handle small war situations ranging from street riots to a second Korea. Name of force: Strategic Army Corps, or STRAC. Motto: Skilled, Tough. Ready Around the Clock. Composition of force: paratroops of the 82nd and 101st Airborne
Hungarian-born Theodore von Karman, chief of NATO's AGARD in Paris, insists that in atomic and missile research the Germans were used only on a low technical level, points out that almost all have long since been sent home. "The Russians,'' says President Andrew G. Haley of the International Astronautical Federation, "didn't get as much from the Germans...
After 40 years of working in New York restaurants, Wat Kam-san, 60, went back in January to the China he had left as a teenager. Bachelor Wat was in for a jolt. Although he had dutifully sent money to the home folks for 40 years, he had overlooked someone. The someone: his wife...
...told an assistant to inject antibiotics. Then he went to work with especially sharp, small scalpels with interchangeable blades of razor steel. Don Luis trimmed away dead tissue, sewed the edges of healthy tissue together, dusting the wound with germ-killing sulfa drugs. The most urgent work done, he sent Bienvenida to the Sanatorio, a few blocks away...
...invalided home with an ankle injury, made his stage debut in 1916. Seeking his fortune in movies after the war, he clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom, sent him up the matinee-idol trail (Lady Windermere's Fan, Romola, Stella Dallas) that culminated in Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late...