Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mails as obscene. Last summer Williams got embroiled with the Post Office for mailing 300,000 comic postcards that pictured a donkey kicking "cattlemen who voted for Ike." He cashed in on the publicity, legally changed his name from James Pinckney to Cowboy Pink Williams, and campaigned against veteran (six terms) Lieutenant Governor James Berry with the slogan: "It's Berry canning time...
...peculiar point of pride. Gonzalez' countryman, Juan Manuel Fangio, 43, had not even entered the race. But aficionados of the Grand Prix circuit understood. José Gonzalez, to hear Gonzalez tell it, is the best sports-car pilot on the road. But year after year the veteran Fangio kept winning the battle for Grand Prix points...
...President, a weathered veteran of military and diplomatic wars and skirmishes, recognized the extent of the defeat and the degree of the danger. "The United States has not been a belligerent in this war," he said. "The primary responsibility for the settlement in IndoChina rested with those nations which participated in the fighting. Our role at Geneva has been at all times to try to be helpful . . . The agreement contains features which we do not like." Then, with an eye to the next Red move, he added, "but a great deal depends on how they work out in practice...
Said Pilot Philip Blown, a veteran of the Royal Australian Air Force and one of the rescued: "The fighters stayed on our tail and took turns spraying the fuselage. They shot us down with the intention of killing us. When they got too near for good shooting, they throttled back and then began firing again...
...McCarthy supporters outnumbered praise for the series by about five to one. But more than half the pro-McCarthy mail was anonymous, while virtually all the anti-McCarthy mail was signed. Said one S-H executive: "The crank mail usually outnumbers the sensible mail about five to one." Woltman, veteran anti-Communist reporter and never a member of the party or anything close to it, got letters addressed to "Comrade Woltman" and "Freddy Jewish Woltman"; he was denounced as everything from a "Communist agent" to "Freddy the Stink," and accused of writing the series only because of "pressure from...