Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's airborne branch (organized 1940) is only an infant. But in battle experience the airborne is a seasoned veteran with a gruff enough voice to demand its place in the sun. Last week the airborne's demands were beginning to produce results. The Air Force announced that it is setting up a new command at Greenville, S.C.-the Eighteenth Air Force-whose sole job will be carrying troopers and equipment to the battlefield...
...Paris, De Lattre ran into opposition from two quarters. Defense Minister Jules Moch said he could not spare officer cadres, pointed to the ten divisions he had promised General Eisenhower for European defense in 1951. General Alphonse Juin, just back from a tour of troubled Morocco, said he needed veteran units in North Africa. But De Lattre had a firm supporter in Jean Letourneau, Minister for the Associated States. Said Letourneau: "We protect France by fighting in Indo-China...
...Episcopalian? At the apex of the pyramid is the National Council's first president, Bishop Sherrill. When the delegates to the National Council's constituting convention elected Bishop Sherrill its first president, they did not pick a veteran wheelhorse of the ecumenical movement. Nor were they singling out one of the sparkplugs of U.S. Protestantism-a barrier-breaking theologian like Reinhold Niebuhr or a hard-hitting polemicist like Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. They were simply picking the best...
...organization, as Sherrill and its veteran boss, ubiquitous, tireless General Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert, are well aware, is not only bigger than ever before, but has a bigger opportunity, and a greater challenge. When the ecumenical movement was getting started, Christianity was suffering from doldrums as well as division. The scientific and secular optimism of the 19th Century seemed to have superseded the faith of our fathers; the future belonged to man, and man was the measure of it. Now things are different...
...exception of one Workshop professor who sang the role of Gurnemanz, the singers were all graduate and undergraduate students of the university. To lighten the singing load (and share the experience), there were two Parsifals and two Kundrys. A standout performance: that of Tenor Guy Owen Baker, 27, a veteran of all three Bloomington Parsifals, who sang the title role in Acts...