Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jordan: Byroade's predecessor in Afghanistan, Sheldon T. Mills, 54, Foreign Service veteran who took up his first overseas post in Bolivia in 1929, served as Ambassador to Ecuador before moving to Afghanistan...
...Black Hawks' resurgence lies with three veteran forwards known to all Chicago as the Pappy Line: Left Wing Ted Lindsay, 33, Center Tod Sloan, 31, and Right Wing Eddie Litzenberger, 26. With a total of 69 goals, 94 assists, the Pappy Line is far and away the highest-scoring line in the league...
Drifting unobtrusively across the country as the guest of the Defense Department, Greece's Ivy Leaguish Crown Prince Constantine, at 18 a second lieutenant in his country's army, navy and air force, paused on a tour of Hollywood's wonders for a chat with veteran Cinemenace Peter Lorre, somewhat whey-faced in his makeup for the role of a clown in MGM's The Big Circus...
With a begging bowl for his orb of office and a football pennant for his sceptre, the college president can be a figure of fun-although few who have held the position have suggested that it is fun to be a college president. A veteran occupier of learning's most uneasy chair, Harold Stoke, now president of Queens College, tells in The American College President (Harper; $3.50) what it is like to sit there. Stoke's credentials are various: he headed the University of New Hampshire from 1944 to 1947, then took on the presidency of Louisiana State...
...veteran sailor, Parker first gained national recognition by winning the midget Turnabout Tournament in 1952 and taking the junior title the following year. He further distinguished himself three years ago by being chosen one of five young sailors to represent the United States in a yachting exchange with Sweden...