Word: summonses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crouching spraddle-legged on the parking strips at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., a line of sleek, grey jet planes with round plastic noses waits day & night for the summons to take the air. They are "all-weather interceptors" (Lockheed F-94s of the 52nd Fighter All-Weather Wing), ready...
About 40 people waited in the first-session room of the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex, which is "holden at Cambridge" six mornings a week "for the transaction of Criminal Business." Most of them had come in response to the small white traffic slips they held, each of which...
Supply & Demand. In Neustift, Austria, Fritz Rambusek, hired to blow the bugle which summons firemen, explained why he had set fire to several buildings: "I liked to blow [the bugle], and didn't have much opportunity otherwise."
The ringing summons brought no ringing response. A substantial majority of the smaller nations-the Latin Americans, Greece, Turkey and the Philippines among them-lined up with the U.S. But the big powers of Western Europe, Britain and France, saw no "inescapable duty" as they had last June. Neither did...
Defense Secretary George Marshall last week ground out a policy order intended to stop college men from tossing away their books in mid-year and pounding down to the recruiting station. Gist of the new policy: while local draft boards can still summon college men for pre-induction physicals, that...