Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Taftmen, who repeated their defense that most Ike supporters in Texas were Democrats who had no business meddling in Republican affairs. Unruffled, Ike flew off next morning to Nevada for a visit to Hoover Dam. At the dam he told reporters gleefully, "On the road out here, a veteran shouted at me, 'You'd better get in, General, or we'll both be back in the Army." After a look at Lake Mead, Ike asked how soon it would fill up with silt if no precautionary measures were taken. When the guide told him 350 years...
...started his political career in his teens, driving voters of Norristown's old third ward to the polls in a buggy. In 1940 he was a sergeant-at-arms at the Republican Convention, a delegate in 1944, an alternate in 1948. As a convention veteran, he knows the emotional crises that can beset the delegate's mind. "Let us suppose that one man has 560 votes and the other 550. That's when you have to keep cool. You can't be huff-huffed into a wrong decision...
...whole force are ideologically certified Reds. In fact, the Russians, like the western allies, show some reluctance to rearm Germans. Their two prize Nazi trophies, captured Generals Friedrich von Paulus and Walther von Seydlitz, are still in Russia, apparently not trusted to run an army of Germans. Veteran Wehrmacht officers originally assigned to the Vopos are being shunted aside as unreliable. The Russians hope to rear a new generation of indoctrinated German officers, but seem to have recurring doubts about them...
After being lionized as the old darling of the Cannes film festival, veteran (68) Slapstick Producer Mack Sennett returned to Hollywood with a bit of advice for Americans going to France: "Don't be surprised by anything." To show what he meant, Sennett recalled a Maurice Chevalier show in Paris where the chorus girls bounced around naked from the waist up. Said Sennett primly: "I had to clean my glasses three times to make sure...
...more and more sporadic. Luckily, the boys were away at school when their father's outside activities became so time-consuming. The order one, James, graduated from Michigan and is now head of Time magazine's Montreal bureau. Ted, twenty-four years old and like his brother a Navy veteran, graduated from Swarthmore last year. He achieved fame of a sort on the campus by buying a pin-ball machine and sending it off to his father after the town of Swarthmore had held a confiscatory sale. At present the machine rests quietly in the attic of 17 Quincy Street...