Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite son (not to be confused with an all-out presidential candidate) and see what happens. Last week, urged by his advisers to proclaim that he is not a "serious" presidential candidate, Governor Brown took to the air to explain his position once and for all. On Meet the Press, the question...
Upperclassmen hazed him mercilessly, once forced him to stoop over the point of an upended bayonet until, after 20 minutes of agony, he toppled and gashed himself (but he never named his tormentors). By 1901, when he graduated 15th in his class, George Catlett Marshall, son of a well-off coke processor, collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, had become a legend: First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, all-Southern football tackle, tireless hiker, faultless in conduct and dress-soldier...
...five years of bloodshed in Algeria. Day after day, diplomats and intermediaries crisscrossed North Africa to exchange hints and glances in the feverish, delicate task of preparing bargaining positions. Rebel "President" Ferhat Abbas flew to Rabat to consult Morocco's King Mohammed V, whose son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, had established direct contact with Charles de Gaulle. The Paris weekly Jours de France quoted Abbas as telling its correspondent: "De Gaulle is a big caid [chief], and I am a big caid. So let's get together." Abbas' aides denied that he had made the statement...
Standing beside an F-105 jet fighter-bomber and ready for takeoff, it could have been the ghost of the old Flying Tiger himself, General Claire L Chennault, who died last year. There was good reason for the startling resemblance. The craggy-faced general's craggy-faced son, Air Force Major Claire P. Chennault, 38, is 17-year veteran of the service, has two brothers, Colonel John and Master...
...Lieutenant in the Fire Department, although a graduate of no college, marches at all football games and participates in all Band functions. Years ago Touchette's son was a mascot for the Band and one of the protectors of the big bass drum. Now Paul E. Touchette '60 is an undergraduate member of the Harvard University Band