Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost 21 million veterans-more than 15 million from World War II, 3,000,000 from World War I, 2,000,000 from Korea and 143,000 others. With their families, they come to nearly half the nation's population. They can collect benefits from mustering out ($300) to taps-the Government provides $150 for burial, plus flag and headstone. (If he so desires, a veteran can even bury his family in national cemeteries without charge.) Other items...
...transatlantic DC-6B, with only twelve of 66 seats occupied, was just 25 miles from the safety of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The pilot, Captain Charles Harman, 36, a veteran of 170 Atlantic crossings, was more than an hour ahead of schedule on a flight from New York's Idlewild Field. Some time in the next few minutes, the plane plummeted into the cold waters of the North Sea. Residents of the Dutch town of Schoorl reported that they heard an explosion, but no one knew what had gone wrong. All aboard were killed: 21 persons, including seven...
...week things had been breaking right for Bob Sweeny, New York socialite, R.A.F. veteran, and one of the U.S.'s distinguished amateur golfers. For the sixth time since 1932, 43-year-old Sweeny was shooting for the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship, and he was shooting some of the best golf of his career. On the way to the finals he breezed past such steady competitors as last year's runner-up, Dale Morey, and Connecticut's Dr. Ted Lenczyk. Now, in the last round, he seemed a good bet to upset the tournament favorite: Arnold Palmer...
...field, injury-hobbled Al Rosen has moved between first and third with ease; Negro Al Smith has switched from benchwarmer to one of the hottest out fielders around; Veteran Hank Majeski, 37, stepped in for Bobby Avila and batted a resounding .350. Whenever a regular smoldered, his substitute caught fire...
Author Monelli, no professional historian but a veteran newspaperman, has written a biography that often verges on caricature. Obviously ashamed of his people's long allegiance to Mussolini, Author Monelli does his best to de-Caesarize Italy's 20th century Caesar. In destroying the legend of Mussolini as hero, he occasionally seems to build up another legend of Mussolini as utter boob. But with that qualification in mind, Mussolini can be enjoyed as a highly readable biography...