Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleague of U Nu since the '30s, when both were leaders in the anti-British activities of Rangoon University students, U Ba Swe narrowly escaped execution during World War II when the Japanese discovered that he had been using his position as chief of their puppet "civil defense unit" in Rangoon to cover up his activities as a leader of Burma's anti-Japanese resistance movement. Released from a Japanese prison at the intercession of U Nu. U Ba Swe promptly became boss of Burma's Socialists, and has long been the biggest political power in Burma...
...even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel and Hemingway's Word," hit Page One of Havana's big (circ. 52,000) morning daily, Excelsior, it bloomed too close to home. Thoroughly enraged, Hemingway went to the Warner Bros, unit now filming The Old Man in Cuba, borrowed a tape-recorder man, a cameraman and a pressagent. Soon, Papa was set up in his favorite local bistro, La Terraza Café, on the harbor of Cojimar, a fishing village near Havana. With him sat grizzled Miguel Ramirez, 68, named...
...Declare that initial assignments to school will be made in accordance with what the assigning unit (or officer) considers to be for the best interest of the child assigned, including in its consideraton residence, school attended during the preceding year, availability of facilities, and all other local conditions bearing upon the welfare of the child and the prospective effectiveness of his school...
Comstock Hall will complete the third wing of the three-dormitory unit at the north end of the quadrangle...
...Douglas MacArthur, a doting smile from mother, Jean Faircloth MacArthur. Latest in line of the soldiering family that has led U.S. troops in five wars, Arthur will not follow paternal footprints to West Point. He will take up studies at Columbia University this fall, will probably join an R.O.T.C. unit...