Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neville is a veteran of living on the edge of disaster. He was in Spain in 1936 when the Civil War broke out, in Warsaw in 1939 when the Nazis blitzed across the Polish border to start World War II. He has also followed gentler pursuits, e.g., bridge expert for the New York Herald Tribune. During his newspaper career, he got his first good look at the East. He set off on a westward jaunt around the world in 1940, reported the war's effects on Free China and Hong Kong, took a look behind the Japanese lines...
...Chou's special assignments: to organize an insurrection among Shanghai's workers. With other veteran Communists, he sneaked into the city, secured arms and training grounds, and succeeded in organizing some 600,000 workers into terrorist bands. When Chiang discovered that the Communists intended to seize power for themselves at the expense of the Nationalists, he swept into Shanghai without warning, disarmed Chou's workers and arrested the ringleaders. Chou, with his talent for landing right side up, managed to escape. The Nationalists put a price of $80,000 (Chinese) on his head. Chou continued to work...
...last week Syrian Premier Khaled el-Azem, a veteran politico who plays along closely with Syria's big landowners and the army in the hope of some day becoming President, announced that his country would not ask Washington for Point Four aid. Alleged reason: fear of "Western imperialist penetration...
Chipper Charley Dressen, a bustling, 52-year-old veteran who salts his peppery chatter with baseball's four-letter Anglo-Saxon, has some sound reasons for his optimism. He has an infield which matches or betters any in either league, both in fielding and hitting, a stable of booming hitters (see box) and, in Roy Campanella, the best catcher in baseball. Though his pitching staff is a little short of reliable starters, it is long on reliefers, especially when handled by Dressen's particular brand of managerial magic-a shrewd combination of coaxing and coercion...
Before the trial, Coach Tom Bolles decided the bout for the number four spot in the varsity shell in favor of Link Boyden over Jim Slocum. While Slocum is the more powerful oarsman, Boyden provided the necessary smoothness. Slocum, a veteran first boat man, joined other varsity men, Clancy Asp and Ted Anderson in the experienced, first class J.V. shell...