Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General John Medaris, U.S. Army, 55, commander of the Huntsville Agency, with black mustache and swagger stick, often comes across as the dashing soldier type. He is something more and something different. Ohio-born John Medaris worked his way through high school driving a lobster-shift taxi and street car, began flying at twelve (he lied about his age). On his 16th birthday he enlisted in the Marine Corps, arrived in France too late for combat, was discharged as a corporal, and went back to Ohio State University for a degree in mechanical engineering. As a senior R.O.T.C. cadet...
...could "make our position clear without a personal appearance." The nation, said Curtice, is afraid U.A.W. will make wage demands not "tailored to the economic facts of life." As a start toward restoring public confidence, Curtice asked U.A.W. to renew its present G.M. contract for two years, and stick by its 6?-an-hour annual wage increase...
...defeat hit not only M.D.N. but the U.S., which has backed Castillo Armas' brand of moderation with some $80 million in aid. Though publicly neutral, the U.S. had obviously hoped that the middle-road ways would stick. Both Ydigoras Fuentes and Méndez Montenegro professed to be friendly to the U.S., but their backers yelped about U.S. "interference" in internal affairs...
...space where the circus shows off its freaks, directly below the main arena where hockey players hack at one another with stick and skate, Madison Square Garden last week became a colossal art gallery. The most massive exhibition of U.S. painting and sculpture in decades-more than 1,500 works from 40 states and Hawaii-lined 4,200 running feet of plywood panels and sprawled over 40,000 sq. ft. of space in the Garden's basement Exposition Hall. The all-encompassing title of the show: "Art: U.S.A...
...Bruins just had time to save the game and LaBine turned the trick when a Larry Regan shot bounded off Maple Leaf goalie Ed Chadwick right onto Leo's stick...