Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN P. LEONARD JR. Lieut. Colonel, U.S.M.C. Quantico, Va...
Washington. Aiming point: the Lincoln Memorial. The perimeter of total destruction would include the entire District of Columbia and Arlington County, Va. (the Pentagon, National Airport), the suburbs of Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Hyattsville, Alexandria...
Died. Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, 79, wife of Cordell Hull, longtime (1933-44) Secretary of State under F.D.R.; of pulmonary edema; at her childhood home in Staunton, Va...
...Clearest Voices. Ever since Joe McCarthy made his famed speech in Wheeling, W. Va. on Feb. 9, 1950, he has had a highly vocal host of enemies. But their cries of protest have never been so effective as the rising chorus of last week. The reason was clear. A new force had joined in the battle against McCarthy. It included many respected, conservative Republicans whom McCarthy could not call "extreme left-wing bleeding hearts." What they said had real effect with millions of U.S. citizens who had been inclined to overlook McCarthy's tactics because he was opposing Communism...
...years as a Marine aviator, Colonel Frank Schwable (rhymes with able) had demonstrated time and again that he was a brave, cool and efficient fighting man. As he took the stand before a court of inquiry at Arlington, Va. last week, the ribbons on his tunic bore testimony to an honorable career as a regular-as a pilot in Nicaragua, as combat commander of a nightfighter squadron in World War II, as chief of staff of the First Marine Aircraft Wing during the Korean war. But all this simply complicated the dreadful dilemma of the high-ranking officers...