Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret Kept. A month later, Gavenda, veteran of 30 border crossings, dragged the exhausted Bures across the frontier into the safety of West Germany. They brought to U.S. Intelligence the first news that John Hvasta of Hillside, N.J., a Czech-born naturalized American had jumped bail. Hvasta had been snatched from his job in the U.S. consulate in Bratislava in 1948 and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on an espionage charge. For six months Intelligence kept the story secret, in order not to help the Communists in their search. Fortnight ago the Czech Foreign Minister informed...
...Hollywood, veteran Director-Producer Cecil B. DeMille, 71, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary. His for mula for a successful marriage: "A man must be lucky enough to find a patient, gracious lady...
Despite the empty seats, it was perhaps Eisenhower's most effective speech to date. It seemed to get across not only the man's principles but the man's heart. Said Veteran Eisenhower, recalling...
...late great Arthur Vandenberg; Williams himself was elected by a bare margin. Unpopular outside Detroit, Moody is supported by the unions, but labor leaders are frequently unable to swing the Detroit election. This week, Republicans faced Moody with a tough opponent: Congressman Charles E. Potter, a legless war veteran who has the support of Michigan industrialists, is a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Williams' opponent is Fred M. Alger Jr., public-minded heir of one of Detroit's pre-automobile families and a strong candidate...
...idea for Space Patrol belongs to a 37-year-old Navy Air Force veteran, Mike Moser. During World War II, Moser was in charge of weather training for three hurricane-hunter squadrons based...