Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missing Mongol. Arrested, Meurant promptly confessed to both his identity and the murder. Then he changed his story. The killer, he swore, was a Mongol, a Soviet agent in U.S. uniform, otherwise known as Operative B 13. He himself, Meurant obligingly told the police, was in reality Soviet Operative B 17. The Mongol, he went on, had hidden in the trunk compartment of his car, stripped the countess to find some secret papers she was carrying, and strangled her, all before Meurant could interfere. "Brassières and panties," Meurant told an Amiens court informatively, "are excellent for hiding microfilm...
...slip of the tongue. But two days after Vishinsky's speech, his wish came true. The Hungarian government announced that it would bring the U.S. airmen to trial. The charge: "Having with premeditated intention violated the border of Hungary." By putting four servicemen in uniform on trial as spies, the Reds had gone further than they had ever dared before...
...boldness could be seen in the words of France's Robert Schuman last week: "A complete merger of our armed forces in one uniform, under common discipline, under single command and responsibility -not to individual governments but to all the member governments." A High Authority made up of representatives of the six countries would oversee its 43 divisions, its 560,000 ground combat troops. A Commissioner of Defense with broad powers would boss it, assign military commanders, set a common military budget, allocate military aid. Important undertakings such as U.N. and NATO involve no such surrender of national sovereignty...
...Prompting the Yankees to retire Joe's uniform No. 5. Other retired uniforms: Lou Gehrig's No. 4; Babe Ruth...
Gibbons countered "that Eisenhower didn't even have a foreign policy, and that he would lose a great deal of prestige and glamour when he had to take off his uniform and make political stands. Besides not having a platform, Like had never set a policy in his life," he said...