Word: toms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even in SAC's fondest dreams, it has little hope of getting an effective warning system much before 1960-61, in any event can hardly hope for much more warning than the 15 minutes' interval between blast-off and strike. Said SAC's Commanding General Tom Power in testimony last month before the Preparedness Subcommittee: SAC has no "airborne alert" in the sense of loaded bombers in midair at all times, and without adequate warning "it is conceivable that you could knock...
Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures-like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry-were "illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended." Cocky, hot-tempered and unruly, Tom Benton talked loud and stood proud, and his fame was solid. But as a new generation's vibrant distortions and vivid abstractions transfigured the U.S. art world, museum directors began to shuffle his canvases into cellar crypts, and his name vanished from the critics' scripts. Benton did not help his cause by denning a museum director as "a pretty...
Within the State Department there are already two possible choices--Undersecretaries Herter and Dillon--and outside the Department there are more--John McCloy, General Alfred Gruenther, and Ambassador David Bruce. Of these five possible choices--the nomination of Tom Dewey is about as probable as that of former Senator Knowland--only Bruce has all the qualifications for the position. Herter, seriously crippled by arthritis, has only been in the Department a few years; Dillon, though young and reportedly popular with Eisenhower, lacks a really broad background in foreign policy. Both McCloy and Gruenther have been out of the government...
...Travel. In Burbank, Calif., police confiscated Tom Harper's .22-cal. frontier pistol after he shot himself in the leg while practicing fast draws, next day during another practice session pinked his wife on the abdomen...
...Tom Mboya, 28, most powerful political personality of Kenya, land of the gory Mau Mau uprisings. The Mau Mau were Kikuyus; Mboya is a Luo, the second largest tribe. Son of a sisal plantation worker, round-faced young Mboya learned most of his ABCs by writing in the sand for lack of books and slates. In 1953, the year he got fired as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi, he was elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality...