Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Arnold, a 41-year-old West Pointer and native of Silver Springs, Md., was sentenced to ten years. Major Baumer, 32, of Lewisburg, Pa., got eight years. Captain Eugene J. Vaadi, 33, of Clayton, N.Y., who was shot down near Berlin in 1945, got six years. Captain Elmer F. Llewellyn, 29, of Missoula, Mont, and Lieut. Wallace L. Brown, 28, of Banks, Ala. got five years each...
...Silver-haired General J. Lawton Collins, 58, knew that Indo-China was the graveyard of military reputations. In Saigon, at President Eisenhower's behest, to determine whether the demoralized free half of Viet Nam could be saved from the Communists, Collins resisted a newsman's commiserations. "I've already had one military career," he said unworriedly...
...fifth formers of Britain's silver-spooned Forest School in Snaresbrook, Essex, Christopher Youngs, 15, seemed too shy to be a leader, too dull to be a dormitory rogue. As a matter of fact, the boys called him Bumblie. But last week old Bumblie had suddenly come into his own. He had some smashing news, he told his classmates one day-and off he went to see Headmaster Gerald Miller...
Died. Baron Erik Fleming, 60, court silversmith of Sweden, architect, sculptor and painter, whose more than 7,000 elegantly wrought coffee sets, platters and vases in gold and silver won him international fame, and whose strikingly simple, mass-produced designs were reflected in household appliances in thousands of postwar homes; in Stockholm...
From Los Angeles' fog-shrouded airport, a white and silver DC-6B of the Scandinavian Airlines System last week took off on the first scheduled commercial flight to Europe by way of the Arctic. By flying a great circle route, instead of across the continent to New York, SAS cuts the Los Angeles-Copenhagen route by 459 miles and the flying time by 2 hrs. 25 min. (The regular one-way fare of $574 saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops...