Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tricolor sash of office, stepped forward to read an oration. Said he: "I salute the mortal remains of Gaston Depestel . . . who has died without ideals in the unjust war of the Viet Nam, for the armament makers and the plantation owners . . ." At that point, an Indo-China war veteran put his hand over the mayor's manuscript and said quietly: "Rien de ça Monsieur le Maire" (Cut it out, Mister Mayor...
...stakes out another half-hour of daytime TV for the ladies. Actress Day, wife of the New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher, hustles through half a dozen interviews (Author Fannie Hurst, Actress Barbara Britton, Singer Connie Moore, a barber, a general, and a wounded Korean veteran on a stretcher), and tosses off gaily professional asides about baseball that may confuse her housewife listeners. The " mood of something for everyone is heightened by two minutes of The Pocahontas Polka followed by two minutes of Ibsen's A Doll's House. As a commercial bonus, the first show offered...
Thursday's time trial decided which Crimson boat would be the varsity and which would be the jayvee 'fifties. Up until that time, Haines said, the two shells were very close, and he was undecided which one would be the first boat. Two veteran oarsmen from last year's varsity are in the first shell, Sam Allen at two, and Ted Barrett at three. Bill Chadwick, last year's captain, is coxing the varsity again...
Francis Keppel, Dean of the School of Education, said that the demonstration nursery school will be used to carry on studies of the social and personality development of the children. Students in the school of Education have been using the veteran's nursery school for these purposes, unofficially, for some time...
University officials said that the veteran population here has slacked to the point where special aid to veterans and their families is no longer necessary...