Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arlington, Va...
...home John and his family are shielded from sightseers, photographers and reporters under the noes of White House Press Secretary James Hagerty and the eyes of Secret Service men. In their starkly furnished, rented three-bedroom brick house in Alexandria, Va., just ten minutes by car from the Pentagon, John and Barbara Eisenhower live, by deliberate design, a quiet life. With the customary occasional helping hand from the in-laws, they get along on John's Army pay and allowances (monthly total: roughly $670). There are four youngsters to feed and clothe: rambunctious, outgoing David, 9; lively, pigtailed Barbara...
...taken two years. By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months. Since then, the Defense Department has ordered 17 more docks worth $16 million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough for the Navy's 60,000-ton supercarriers. Another job: the first "Texas Tower" radar island, no miles off Cape...
...case in the FBI files. She had been playing the same confidence game across the country and offshore under at least 22 different aliases since 1939. Among the accumulated charges: embezzlement in Honolulu, grand theft in Los Angeles, grand larceny in Vancouver, B.C., stealing $2,000 in Norfolk, Va. Cockers, furniture vans and daughter in tow, Margaret had always sped on-just ahead of police -to find the next golden opportunity...
...Veterans Administration reported that the Korean G.I. bill, just five years old last week, has so far given nearly 2,000,000 out of 5,100,000 veterans of the Korean war either a high-school or college education or on-the-job training. Today, added the VA, veterans account for 25% of the male student population. ¶ For the first time since 1910, said the U.S. Office of Education, the percentage of high-school students taking science and mathematics rose last fall. Biology (tenth grade) was up from 72.6% in 1954 to 75%, chemistry (eleventh grade) from...