Word: veteran
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BULGARIA-Vulko Chervenkov (the name means "The Red Wolf") is one of the two original Cominformists whose fortunes have improved since 1947 (the other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria...
...TIME'S tabulation has been carrying as 85 for Ike, one for Taft, ten uncommitted, Taft has made some small gains. Manhattan Delegate Richard Neville said he will vote for Taft, and in Queens, Delegate Frank C. Kenna, county Republican chairman, indicated he was leaning Taftward. In Brooklyn, veteran G.O.P. Leader Jacob A. Livingston, a strong anti-Dewey man, announced for Taft. Although he is not a delegate, Livingston's influence is considerable. Taft may have ten or more New York votes...
...story that emerged had for its villain (or its goat) one Harry Jarvinen, 32, a naturalized citizen of the U.S. and a travel agency executive in Seattle. A Finnish army veteran, Jarvinen came to New York in 1941, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, later worked in the immigration service and as a seaman before going into the travel agency line. For the past six years, he has been an unpaid, occasional tipster of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...heard of the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines," said Bob Amberger, a veteran construction boss on some of the world's biggest oil and gas lines. "Well, this one's the Inch-by-lnch...
...Intrigued by such a doughty creature, Maxwell began to bone up on it. He found that though the basking shark's liver is known to contain hundreds of pounds of valuable oil, no one had much else to say about the great fish. Here, in short, was a veteran's dream, "an unexplored field, an amazing blank upon the . . . map of the world's natural history...