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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transaction was unknown to the thousands who decorated both banks and it probably didn't matter much. Amused by the bands and humor magazines of two colleges and warmed by a sun that sent the temperature to the mid-60s, the crowd had little trouble waiting out the hour-long postponement...
...Grand Rapids, Mich, draft board suspended operations in protest. One member, Robert J. Yonkman, Air Force major in World War II, said: "The Government wants to ... give tests to disclose whether a man is dumb enough to bear arms. Maybe they should put on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier: 'I couldn't pass the aptitude test...
...unknown marauder walked into an empty fourth floor Winthrop room over the weekend, and walked out with a new spring outfit and spending money, the victims reported yesterday...
...addressed the National Press Club. Later in the week he received a rousing ovation when he spoke to the Western Hemisphere foreign ministers (see HEMISPHERE). Between times he made a quick trip to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, visited Mount Vernon, laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and attended another formal dinner given by Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Voyage with Sabotage. At Le Havre, the Empire Marshal's heavy derricks were damaged by unknown hands. At St. Nazaire, union workers and longshoremen refused to touch the ship; it was repaired and loaded by French troops. At Marseilles, the Empire Marshal had generator trouble; crewmen noticed that another British ship in the harbor, also bound for Indo-China, had mysterious generator trouble, too. The voyage to Indo-China was trouble-free, but at the mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained...